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Staying home on Election Day means voting for NC: Karra
Published on
Friday, 11 April 2014
10:46 pm
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Srinagar: Senior Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) leader and former finance minister, Tariq Hameed Karra Friday said
staying home on election day means voting for the National Conference, which
has time-and-again backstabbed the people of Kashmir and have nothing to show
by way of performance, therefore they are exclusively counting on boycott to
continue to stay in power.
According to a statement issued to KNS, he said though
the separatists have every right to call for boycott of elections but they
equally have to think whether it helps the cause of ordinary people or not, who
have got trampled, exploited under the cruel politics of National Conference
over the years.
Addressing various public meetings at Kujar, Malpora and
Bunderkund in Ganderbal district Karra said the people of Kashmir, who have
suffered immensely over the last many decades because of the NC leadership, too
deserve a system which shall take care of them in the most humane manner
without letting the blood to flow down the drains. All that requires that we
shall look at the ground realities and understand the pain of people who want
to get rid of the NC to pave way for a broader discourse about governance and
politics to emerge from here, he added.
Karra said the PDP, which has its own idea, agenda about
the welfare of people and resolution of Kashmir issue, believes that in
democracy everyone has right to have his opinion because that not only brings
about vibrancy in the process but makes politics inclusive unlike the NC which
has always been averse to any form of opposition to develop from here. “We are
not against any individual or idea but we want to pursue the cause of our
people by our way so that there is end to this uncertainty which has only got
disaster in the lives of common masses,” said Karra.
He said Kashmir issue is not that weak to get diluted
with the costing of vote but it will definitely help the NC to strength the
instruments of oppression to unleash terror on people with all impunity.
“Besides doing huge sell-outs, U-turns, splattering blood of innocents on
ground and putting thousands behind the bars under PSAs and using other harsh
draconian measures to silence the voices of dissent, the NC with no shame is
still asking for votes, because it knows well it does not enjoy power because
of the popular vote. That is why it is not feeling accountable before the
people for its all frauds and acts of omission and commission,” Karra said.
Karra said people are being exploited on every front
within the system be it the delivery of justice, services or providing jobs and
there is no accountability, transparency seen anywhere to provide the people
relief. He said the NC, which has been the primary beneficiary of boycott, has
let loose the most dishonest, unpleasant system in the state where at every
stage money is sought from the people to get their works done. That is quite
unfortunate if we won’t allow a system to develop in Kashmir which will give
voice to the voiceless and in real sense take care of the needs of people so
that there is end to the NC’s exploitative and deceitful politics. (KNS)
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