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| PDP established its Credibility throught Performance, Consistency” Mehbooba | |  Srinagar, May 5 (Scoop News) –Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti has said PDP has a positive agenda which is backed by its performance in the government and in the opposition. Addressing the party workers convention at Bandipora today she said the party has introduced real competition into the democratic structure of the state without which the democracy lacked credibility and substance. On this occasion senior party leader and MLA Nizam ud din Bhat, Chief Spokesperson Naeem Akhtar, Zone President Abdul Majeed Rahi and several others were present and spoke to the convention
Mehbooba said the party after its formation in 1999 has maintained consistency in its agenda and while in government it delivered more than any other government has done in past more than six decades. She said by its conduct the party has not just rescued democracy but has provided people with a viable alternative which has already made a difference to political and development scenario of the state. She said in future elections people will have a clear choice and would not suffer for lack of options as in the past.
Mehbooba said the oldest party of the state which has had a monopoly over every thing has now been fully exposed and discarded by the majority of people. Its tumbling fortunes from two third majority to 28 and its complete dependence on other parties is an indication that the party is reaching end of its road. She recalled that in an apparent shift of its traditionally emotive agenda in 2008 Omar Abdullah’s NC went to the people seeking votes not to any thing but governance and development , it promised roads, water, free power , subsidized gas and above all jobs to all making it clear that was neither competent nor expected to resolve the larger political issues. But after remaining in government for five years the Chief Minister has expressed helplessness on almost every issue concerning governance whether it is the security of an ordinary citizen or supplying electricity to consumers. She said issues like unemployment have not been addressed at all and the government is focused only in distributing few government jobs to its favorites through the back door. On the one hand it is throwing out the daily wagers, casual labours, seasonal workers and NYC volunteers who have worked for many years on the pretext of lack of funds but on the other hand hundreds of retired people have been reemployed on fat salaries.
She said the tendency to extend service of retired persons or their reemployment blocks the career prospectus of hundreds of officials who would have in normal course got their promotions up the official hierarchy. This she said has been one reason for demoralization in the services as younger officers get stagnated while top posts are occupied by retired people.
Mehbooba said miss-governance and corruption have created a virtual anarchy in the state and when people protest against it the government uses brute force to silence them. Along with this the Chief Minister resorts to the stock rhetorical speeches calling for political resolution and trying to whip up emotions through sloganeering. She said NC has not a single achievement to its credit on the resolution front and to the contrary it has always created hurdles on any serious effort that was ever made to resolve the larger political problem. She said the people have now become aware that NC has always used Kashmir issue to divert attention from its failures and challenged Omar Abdullah to show if he had been able to take one concrete step during the last five years towards finding a solution to political problems. Instead he has used draconian laws to silence those who are making demand for resolution.
Mehbooba said the institution like Auqaf after their take over by the government from the Sheikh family had been able to establish two full-fledged universities apart from introducing measures like providing free rations to destitute, limbs to disabled and ambulances to major shrines for community service. Nursing college which offers graduation course any where in the state was established by waqaf board in Srinagar. She said the present government however subverted this institution of Muslims also and packed it with almost the same members who constituted the earlier Muslim Auqaf Trust under Abdullah family. No wonder that the waqaf board is now in news only for back door entries, illegal sale of graveyards, and offenses like the theft of construction material from holy places like the Hazrathbal shrine.
On this occasion MLA Nizam ud din Bhat said that NC’s failures and faults created alienation among the people especially the youth. He said the people have realized their tactics and are now fed-up and are now waiting to teach them lesson at the time
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