Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Mar 23: The senior People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader and former Deputy Chief Minister, Muzzafar Hussain Baig today said that National Conference was always interested in power for Abdullah family and they took votes to strike deals in Delhi for ministerial berths.
Addressing party workers at Sopore, Baig said NC had advocated a unique single point solution to the external and internal dimensions of Kashmir issue. Dr Farooq Abdulah, he recalled, had advocated bombing of Pakistan to solve the external dimension; internally he ordered his then Director General of Police to ‘take no prisoners’ but instead shoot the young people as ‘there was no space in his jails.’ The entire Kashmir was converted into a prison with all kinds of repressive forces let loose on people and in the process created number of regular and irregular outfits like Task Force, SOG, Ikhwanis and the ‘unidentified gunmen’.
Baig said now the plough, (NC symbol), has been taken in its hand, (Congress symbol) in this election. The former Deputy Chief Minister said this election marks shrinking of NC as it has conceded Jammu, Ladakah regions completely to Congress and they still claim to be ‘representatives’ of all the regions of the State. He said the institutions of the state have been rendered helpless under the NC-Congress dispensation. He said now they are in search of pair of bullocks, which they think people of State would provide. “Nobody in J&K is now ready to toil or labour for NC and its allies and work their luxuries, while the sate suffers,” he said.
Baig said the purpose of PDP to field senior leaders as candidates for Parliamentary polls is a trend setting development. It is because we want the tragedy of Kashmir to be brought into focus at the national level and create awareness among everybody about the problems we are facing, he said. Unfortunately, he said, Lok Sabha polls have meant just the comforts of power for few and Ministerial berths for the members of Abdullah family.
Baig said there is no denying the fact that it is the PDP, which changed the entire discourse about Kashmir, otherwise job of every Chief Minister before 2002, was to abuse Pakistan as they wanted to remain relevant in the corridors of power. Baig said PDP during its brief tenure in the Government played a crucial role not only in bridging the mistrust between New Delhi and Kashmir, but made every effort to strengthen the relations between India and Pakistan, as the party sees it is fundamental requirement for peace and stability in the entire South Asia.
Senior leaders Naeem Akhtar and Syed Basharat Bukhari MLA were also present & spoke in the meeting.
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