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| Mehbooba to chair party meeting before moving to Jammu | | Amid 'insecurity' in PDP ranks | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 1: Amid reports of insecurity among the ranks of her party, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has decided to chair a meeting of the PDP before moving for Jammu in connection with the biannual darbar move.
Sources said the meeting likely to be held later this week at the residence of Mehbooba would be attended by all party leaders including ministers and Member Parliament Muzaffar Hussain Beig, while attendance will be "must for all."
Sources said in the wake of recent attacks on the houses of some PDP leaders in south Kashmir and torching of their vehicles, some of its cadres were apprehensive of their future in the party.
The party cadres are understood to have conveyed to the leadership that they were feeling insecure and that many plan to quit PDP. Sources said the matter has come to the notice of the PDP president and she has decided to call a general meeting of the party leaders to clear the doubts if any.
Insiders said a general complaint of the PDP cadres is that in the past four months of the unrest in the Valley, most of the senior leaders, mainly lawmakers, have failed to pay due attention to their vote bank areas, as a result of which workers at the grassroots feel unnerved.
"Basically most of the lawmakers including ministers have been spending most of the time in their secured villas in Srinagar and avoid giving attention to their constituencies. This is why people of their respective areas are annoyed and the workers apprehend public fury," said a PDP leader asking not to be named.
Sources said the PDP lawmakers had been presenting a rosy picture of their activities in these vote banks. But Mehbooba has got a negative feedback and wants to clear the air over party working.
Sources said the Chief Minister has decided to tell the "PDP family that first and foremost they should rule out the apprehensions of any threat to the stability of the coalition government and that the Central government has assured of all possible help to salvage Kashmir out of the prevalent unrest."
"Second, she will tell her colleagues that she will personally monitor their performance on the basis of feedback from the grassroots and that the deadwood will not be spared," said the sources privy to the plan.
Sources said some of the close aides of Mehbooba advised her to hold a meeting with the PDP leaders before leaving for the winter capital or that otherwise there was a possibility of some youth leaders quitting the party. |
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