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Lok Sabha polls have to be viewed above routine power calculations: Mehbooba
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Wednesday, 19 March 2014
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“There is need of sincere, bold voices in parliament”
Srinagar: Maintaining that the coming
Lok Sabha elections have to be viewed above the routine power calculations
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti has expressed
confidence that the people would break the past practice of sending politicians
on lookout for employment to the highest forum of the country.
According to a statement issued to KNS, addressing
largely attended workers’ convention at Pulwama, wherein workers from Pulwama
and Rajpora constituencies participated, and at Awantipora where workers from
Pampore and Tral constituencies participated, she said we need to have strong
and sincere voices in the parliament who can take-up the Kashmir issue and the
issues of Jammu & Kashmir with rest of the country inside the parliament
and outside of it. “Unfortunately till now those, who have taken votes in the
name of state’s dignity, autonomy and other emotional issues always
collaborated with the tormentors of the people of the state”,
Mehbooba said.
Mehbooba said even the 65years after the independence the
people of J&K are facing uncertainty and instability in every sphere of the
life. This fact should always have been articulated in the parliament
effectively, not just for striking alliances but for finding actual remedy to
our problems. Four members of Lalu Yadav’s party could stop an important
legislation in the parliament while parties from Bengal and Tamil Nadu
effectively intervened in the foreign affairs of the country but half a dozen
MPs in UPA from J&K even did not open their mouth when blood is being spilt
in Kashmir every day. No MP from J&K even asked a question about any issue
related to this state as has been brought out in the Lok Sabha record recently.
Mehbooba said the only objective of elections for NC has been to find jobs for
their leaders in Delhi and in the state.
Mehbooba said she herself and her senior colleague and
Former deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig as well as Tariq Hameed
Karra and Yashpal Sharma were fielded by the party with the expectation that
they would effectively bring Kashmir into focus at national level. She said our
effort would be to create awareness among the people of the country about the
injustice meted out to us in Jammu & Kashmir, denial of rights, human
rights crisis in the state, democratic deficit promoted by the NC-Congress
alliance and most importantly the loot of natural resources which has plunged
the state into poverty and darkness.
Mehbooba said keeping in view the repeated betrayal by
NC, the PDP expect the decisive mandate, not just in Kashmir but in Jammu
province as well so that a strong voice from the state is emerged in the
parliament which has the support of the people.
She said it is not the numbers alone that give a party
its strength and moral authority to represent the people but it is the
credibility of its leadership, clarity of its vision and honesty of its
purpose. “That is why Mufti Mohammad Sayeed with just sixteen members could
bring about a major change not just in J&K but was able to script a new
agenda of peace for the whole subcontinent. We will carry forward that
agenda to its logical conclusion by facilitating the resolution of Kashmir”,
Mehbooba said.
The PDP President said whatever the achievements of
previous PDP-led government are; they were registered without any agitation,
loss of life or appointment of committees and interlocutors. She said whether
it was the opening of roads across LoC, internal connectivity like extending of
national highway up to Srinagar, new links like Mughal road are very important
measures to bring relief to the people like disbanding SOG and disciplining of
Ikhwani’s, the Mufti government did it without creating a hype.
She said the PDP believes that resolution of issues and
problems is a duty that elected representatives owe to their people and voters
and that is why it has emerged as a feasible and preferred alternative to NC.
Party senior leaders, Mohammad Khalil Bandh, MLA and district president; Syed
Bashir Ahmad, MLA; Zahoor Ahmad Mir, MLA; Mushtaq Ahmad Shah, MLA; Zaffar Iqbal
Manhas, state secretary; Mohammad Shafi Banday; Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra, youth
wing in charge and youth leaders Showkat Gayoor and Dr Shanti Singh were also
present on the occasion. (KNS)
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