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| NC's changing stances responsible for crisis of confidence: Mehbooba | | PDP firm on AFSPA revocation, water resources: Baig | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, May 17: Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti has said the shifting of stands on the status of the state by National Conference was primarily responsible for the crisis of confidence in Kashmir.
Addressing a one day convention of party card holders at Vawoora in Lolab constituency today, she lamented the role of the oldest political party of the state in sowing the seeds of suspicion and instability in the region.
"After having led the state into accession with India, the NC took a U turn and launched its movement for the plebiscite which resulted in countless sacrifices by ordinary people without achieving any thing except highly curtailed power for its leaders after 22 years", she said.
Mehbooba said after selling out the huge sacrifices of people for the comforts of its leaders, the party started paying lip service to autonomy which, like plebiscite earlier, is being used only as a bargaining counter to cling to power at any cost.
The party shared power with the BJP at centre while it pocketed conveniently the insult handed out to it on the autonomy resolution which was virtually thrown into the dustbin, she said and recalled how the party had not even raised a murmur over the Gujarat riots for fear of losing favour of the Sangh Parivar.
She said the party patriarch, Dr Farooq Abdullah even now is keeping channels of communication and friendship open with the Sangh in his own words quoted recently in press for "who knows when we need them".
Mehbooba said this duplicity by the NC has tarnished the image of the entire people of the state and even diluted the importance of our institutions like the legislature.
She said Kashmiri had become a suspect everywhere as a consequence of the dubious NC policies and we receive only dead bodies or live corpses of young men who are either killed in fake encounters or imprisoned for years for no fault.
"This incompetent government is leading the state to a virtual civil war after having lost control on political and development fronts and the people must respond to it through peaceful and democratic means" she said.
Addressing the convention senior party leader and former deputy chief minister Muzaffar Hussein Baig said militarization of the state had resulted in weakening of civil authority and the PDP would not compromise on the demand to revoking the AFSPA.
Explaining the negative impact of the unfair exploitation of our water resources Baig said it was ironical that the state was converted into a begging bowl while its water irrigated other regions and the power generated here illuminated the houses outside the state and provided energy to industries there.
Senior leader Tariq Hamid Karra told the convention that PDP was leading a movement to fight for the rights of the people of the state that had been compromised over the decades.
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