Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 8: Terming the Congress a partner in loot, bloodshed, atrocities, corruption and mis-governance which the Omar Abdullah Government has resorted to in Jammu and Kashmir for last six years, the PDP president, Mehbooba Mufti today expressed the hope that the people would hold to account in this election all those politicians who have got nothing but disaster to the State through their misdeeds and corrupt practices.
“The Congress party is equally responsible for the mess which the Omar Abdullah Government has created in the State. Its ministers and politicians were not just found out to be corrupt but against many action was also taken as an acknowledgment of crime but now the same people have been given mandate of the party,” she said while addressing various roadside meetings in Kokernag Assembly constituency of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district.
“Tell me any scandal, scam, crime which Congress was not part of during last six years? From forest land to medicines in hospitals to molestation they have been found involved in everything which has got a bad name to the entire system,” she said and added that now the same people have been presented by the Congress to the people as its representatives.
Mehbooba said Congress can’t go unscathed for all its offences and frauds and it is ironic that Rahul Gandhi and now Ghulam Nabi Azad are criticizing Omar Abdullah after having sustained him and Coalition Government for six years.
“It is the Congress which provided the moral support to Omar Abdullah when he was ruthlessly presiding over the killing of innocent youth and children in 2010 and bailed him out in the Haji Yousuf’s murder case involving political corruption in the Abdullah family. It also helped Omar Abdullah to go slow in the high profile cricket scam involving his father, Dr Farooq Abdullah,” Mehbooba said.
Mehbooba said Congress as political party is a gone force as none of its Chief Ministerial candidates are fighting the ongoing Assembly elections and its senior leaders like Mangat Ram Sharma and Lal Singh are leaving it.
Expressing the hope that the people would vote on merit and performance in the third phase of polling also, Mehbooba said mass participation of the people in the democratic process is fundamental to see Jammu and Kashmir on the path of peace, progress and development.
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