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| Mehbooba seeks peoples’ support to change fundamentals of politics | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
KOTRANKA (RAJOURI), Dec 13:Seeking support of the people to change the fundamentals of political and administrative system of the state, Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti today said her party had proved how a change could be brought about in the life of people even with a fractured mandate and a short span of time.
Addressing a public rally here, she said governance consciousness was generated in the people of Jammu and Kashmir only after experiencing the positive impact of the previous PDP-Congress government on their daily lives and they would hence forth not compromise on the quality of governance.
Mehbooba said the state had unfortunately been exploited previously on emotional slogans alone without keeping pace with the requirements of development and growth that had hit the remote and the backward areas the hardest. She said the government under Mufti Mohammed Sayeed unlocked the process of development by scrapping the ban on recruitments to government jobs, opening and up-gradation of educational institutions, launching of new road, electrification and water supply schemes and creation of an atmosphere which was free of fear and terror.
“This we could achieve with just 16 members in the Assembly and a loose coalition of many parties and independent members”, she said.
Mehbooba said the areas like Poonch, Rajouri and the Chenab Valley had been kept at the tail end of development process deliberately and used only as a vote bank for decades.
PDP President said the feel good environment that the previous government left behind was unfortunately wasted by the present government. It not only brought to a halt the process of development and political reconciliation but reversed the process in every sense of the word. The people now are fed up with this government, its mis-governance and the strikingly corrupt system that it has promoted, she said and regretted that corruption was now institutionalized even at the highest levels as the recent happenings had exposed. She said a political party that takes bribe from its own workers for cabinet berths and for mandates for MLAs and MLCs can never be trusted with any authority to enforce discipline among the administration that it heads.
Referring to the repeated compromises made by NC on the state’s resources, powers and institutions Mehbooba said the party had bartered away vital interests of the state for the frills and luxuries of power.
While it had gifted ten most feasible power projects to the NHPC just for their lust it was now for the people of the state to gear up for correcting the wrongs done to them.
She said handing over of state’s financial management to the Reserve Bank of India and snatching it from the J&K Bank was a severe blow to the financial autonomy of the state and if the NC remained unchecked “nothing would remain in our hands” she said.
Speaking on the occasion senior party leader and former Finance Minister Tariq Hamid Qarra said that the state was unsafe in the hands of Omar Abdullah. He said by his repeated blunders the Chief Minister had proved that he lacked basic qualities of leadership and as a result is now engaged in an unending battle for survival. |
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