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| Azad dissects PDP’s imaginations | | Koyi idhar se udhar nahi jaayega, na koyi udhar se idhar aayega | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Apr 24
Joint control, dual currency and a long list of other slogans put the Congress peeving situation but Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had been maintaining a silence on how to react to the Peoples Democratic Party’s political adventures.
Breaking his silence, Azad today mocked at the PDP leaders for selling imaginations to the people for garnering support in elections. "Koyi idhar se udhar nahi jaayega, na koyi udhar se idhar aayega" Azad said while explaining that nothing is going to happen the way PDP has been projecting things.
Without actually naming the PDP, the Chief Minister made an elaborate dissection of these political slogans and said that all this was being done to woo the voters. He cautioned people against political parties and groups misleading them with hollow slogans. He said all this was done to garner votes. However, he said, these gimmicks were sure to backfire as people were now intelligent enough to see through these.
Azad said that his government did not believe in false promises and remained single mindedly engaged in welfare of the people. He said leaders of political parties and other groups who wanted masses to believe in imaginary scenarios were actually taking them for a ride. "Koyi idhar se udhar nahi jaayega, na koyi udhar se idhar aayega" (nobody would go from here to there or come from there to here), he said, adding this was spread only with an eye on the forthcoming assembly elections. Likewise, he said some leaders would go to people living in mountains and seek their support by telling that they were their relations. Similarly, religion, region or community was invoked for political gains. He said no religion was in danger in Jammu & Kashmir as was being projected by some vested interests. He said if anything was in danger it were their own positions. He said he had all along been striving to undo this negative politics and asked people to strengthen his hands.
The Chief Minister said that political parties must be identified by their policies and programmes and by what these had done in the interest of the people. He said a government was meant for all people and not only for those who belong to the ruling party. He said doing party politics during elections was alright but once the government was formed it had to do justice with all sections. He said he had been strictly following this principle. He asked people to be united, saying unity in diversity was the real strength of the State and the country.
Azad said the two and a half years of his government had been a period of unprecedented development across the State. He said the process of development that had remained sluggish over the decades received fillip and thousands of infrastructure related projects were completed on fast track while many more were in the process of completion. He said roads, bridges, hospitals, schools, power, drinking water and other utility services were extended to the village level while infrastructure was upgraded in cities and towns. He said projects that would take years to complete were now completed within shortest possible time. He said he had done away with the unhealthy practice of laying foundation stones of projects without sanction and making funds available for their construction.
He said no project was started now before allocations and land were made available. The non-availability of funds, he recalled, would result in long delays, leading to five times cost escalation in the project cost, an abandoning of the project midway. This was no longer the case now, he said, adding that he had made it a point to lay foundation stone of a project only when the construction work had come above the ground level. He referred to the foundation laying ceremony of the mini secretariat at district headquarter Samba few months back and said that he refused to do so as the work had not reached the stipulated level. He said he was scheduled to lay the foundation stone today but in the wake of the demise of prominent political leader and former Governor of Haryana, Bau Parmanand the function, as other government functions, was cancelled.
The Chief Minister said that the present government addressed the issues that were pending for decades. He said the Wazir Commission report was awaiting implementation for about three decades. He said his government not only implemented the report but also went a step further and created 8 new districts, 3 sub-divisions and 12 tehsils in the State. He said the creation of new district of Samba was an instance to show how the government cared for the wishes of the people. He said the creation of new districts was affected in a record time, never heard of in the history of the country. He said within one month of the submission of the report by the Delimitation Committee, the new districts and other administrative units started functioning. He said construction of mini secretariat complexes for these districts was also done on fast track and by the end of this year these would be ready. |
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