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SRINAGAR

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti Wednesday alleged the ‘anti people’ policies of the present government and the ‘inability’ of National Conference (NC) to fulfil its commitments to the people and deliver good governance have led to the emergence of forces which are seeking access to power by dividing people and regions.

According to a statement addressing a number of meetings in Kupwara Mehbooba  said, “from autonomy to removal of AFSPA and providing rations, water supply, power or jobs NC led government failed on every front and gave an opportunity to BJP to emerge as a force in some areas of Jammu province.”

Mehbooba  said the hatred against the NC led coalition had created an unprecedented vacuum on the political scene of the state which is filled largely by the PDP which emerged victorious in as many as 41 assembly segments in the Lok Sabha elections. Unfortunately the collapse of congress which was the major player in some areas of Jammu as result of its fall at the national level and that performance of its ministers  created conditions for BJP to come into the state with a divisive agenda. She said it is obvious that communal polarization  on which the BJP has based its ambitions could in ultimate analysis pose a threat to the unity and integrity of state. “The only practical option would be for the people from all regions of the state to strengthen the progressive initiatives of PDP under the leadership of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed” she added.

Mehbooba said, “it is a matter of elementary logic that only a party like PDP which has established its popularity among the people can form a government that could neutralize the dangers that BJP rise in the state would entail.” She said to resist the negative politics of BJP there is a need for strengthening the hands of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed who has throughout his political career struggled to establish a genuine democracy in the state so that the people become the real decision makers of their destiny and nobody is installed in government either on the basis of hollow and divisive slogans or through extra constitutional lifelines.

Mehbooba alleged NC has no moral authority or political strength to pose as a challenge to BJP. She said it was this party which provided legitimacy to the BJP by aligning  itself with the NDA in 1997 when no party in the country would come anywhere near the Sang Pariwar. “When the first government of NDA fell because of cross voting by prof. Saifudin Soz, NC expelled him from the party” Mehbooba said and recalled that NC had no need to join the NDA as it had 60 members in the Assembly but only to get a junior minister’s post for Omar Abdullah it went into the lap of the NDA with the votes secured from the secular population of the only Muslim majority state in the country.

Mehbooba said it is unrealistic to expect a party which has reduced itself from 60 seats in the assembly to just 6 segments in the parliament election to do a miracle of blocking the BJP rise. Even in combination with the congress it would not be able to do so as the congress itself was reduced to less than a dozen segments in the state in Lok Sabha elections, said Mehbooba.

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