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Vote for PDP will be vote for change: Baig
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Tuesday, 18 March 2014
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“Farooq, Omar tarnishing image of Kashmiris”
Srinagar: The senior Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) and former deputy Chief Minister, Muzzafar Hussain Baig
has said the coming Lok Sabah elections would provide an opportunity to the
people of Kashmir to send such representatives to the parliament, who would
provide voice to the problems and concerns in the highest democratic forum of
the country.
According to a statement issued to KNS, addressing a one
day convention of party workers from Handwara assembly constituency, Baig said
a vote for PDP would be a vote for change as it is the only party that has ever
been able to make a difference in the life of people. He said NC, which as a
result of its conspiracies against the people of Kashmir, sell-outs and
U-turns is reduced to a rump, is now a mere group of power seekers and they
have shown their worst face in the parliament as they never raised their voice
in support of the people, who voted for them.
Baig, who is PDP’s parliamentary candidate for Baramulla
constituency, said the NC leader, Farooq Abdullah presented a one point formula
to the Kashmir problem by recommending the bombing of Pakistan least realising
it could never be done without the annihilation of Jammu & Kashmir and
major parts of our own country.
Of late, Farooq and his chief minister son have launched
a tirade against the people of Kashmir who have offered sacrifices over
generations at the call of NC. “While Omar tarnished the image of entire
Kashmiris by calling them stone-pelters, drug addicts, enemy agents and
terrorist Farooq Abdullah, as the so-called ambassador of Kashmir,
recently called all of us Maha Chors,” Baig said and added it is a different
matter that people of the state know very well who the biggest thief is.
He said PDP is fighting elections for the Lok Sabah with
all seriousness, which can be gauged from the fact that NC was forced to
concede half of the state to its alliance partner even though it is never tired
of claiming to be the sole representatives of the entire J&K.
He said at the end of its rule NC is now projecting
alliance with the Congress as its only achievement, but PDP believes it is the
people of the state who will decide about their future and will judge every
party on the basis of their performance and credibility of the leadership. “NC
after surrendering states authority, its resources and dignity has now
surrendered even its own political space just to survive somehow or the other
on the scenario of the state,” Baig said.
Baig said PDP considers people’s court as supreme and
aims to involve them in the governance system so that a new chapter is written
in the history of the state, which is based on truth and honesty. He said the
disillusionment among the people particularly of youth with the system, is all
because of the ruling government’s callousness and insensitivity towards the
people’s issues. He said PDP with the help of people during its brief stint in
the government brought about a new change in the political discourse and paved
a way forward for the political resolution of J&K issue.
He said PDP has set new standards in the state politics
whether it was in the govt or in opposition. He said the party
brought the state out of repression and darkness in 2002. It scraped POTA,
disbanded taskforce, disciplined Ikhwanis, freed all political prisoners and
facilitated a new chapter in the Indo-Pak relations that culminated in a
ceasefire at a time when the two armies were in full battle gear. He said under
the present regime the state has virtually returned to pre-2002 situation with
the instruments of repression revived, youth victimized and new weapons like
pellet guns and chilli grenades introduced.
The senior PDP leaders, Nizamu Din Bhat, MLA; Naeem
Akhtar, Chief spokesperson; Abdul Haq Khan, MLA, Ghulam Mohiudin Sofi,
ex-minister and local leaders , Ghulam Nabi Panditpori, Fayaz Ahmad Mir, Irfan
Panditpuri, Advocate Mohammad Amin Wani, Mohammad Shafi Dar, and others were
also present on the occasion. (KNS)
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