Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 2: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti said that with the impressive mandate in the LS elections the people of the State have reposed their faith in the PDP and its agenda.
Addressing a public meeting at Kulgam, she said the PDP treats people’s mandate as a sacred trust and would treat this as an opportunity to change the lives of the people who have suffered for decades.
Senior party leaders Sofi Abdul Gaffar MLA, Mohammad Sartaj Madni MLA, district president Nazir Ahmad Laway, Abdul Majeed Padder, Gulzar Ahmad Dar, zone presidents Zafrullah Wani, Farooq Ahmad, youth president Sheraz Ahmad and others were also present and spoke on the occasion.
Mehbooba Mufti said now the people of the State would vote for the PDP to bring in a Government headed by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed with a clear majority, so that the initiatives of change that had been started in 2002 are carried forward.
Referring to the disgusting manner in which the National Conference-led coalition had responded to the defeat in the Parliamentary elections, Mehbooba said it seems that the ruling parties have lost their way completely.
She said the Government is now trying to undone the wrongs, it had committed during last five and a half years, in the name of ‘retrospection’, but it does not care to mention the immense cost it has inflicted on the people as a result of its arrogance, mis-governance, inefficiency, compromises and corruption.
“PDP has always considered itself as accountable to the people and it would continue with its people friendly policies”, she said, adding that there were immense problems on account of corruption, mis-governance, lack of development and infrastructure building but unemployment problem was the biggest challenge for the next Government.
Mehbooba said Omar Abdullah led Government is leaving behind a mess that is difficult to sort out, but the anti-youth policies pursued by it present us with a huge challenge on employment front and the ways to engage youth along creative channels.
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