PDP-BJP responsible for prevailing mess: Cong

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Oct 22: Describing the contradiction between PDP and BJP as the main factor responsible for the worsening situation in the State, Congress today lashed out at ruling dispensation for the disturbances and prevailing uncertainty in the valley.
Taking a dig at Mehbooba Mufti led Govt, the party said State Government has failed to ensure safety of Common people, besides that the people are being pushed to wall by one way or the other way, for no fault of theirs.
Congress also described the unabated braid cutting as a ploy to disturb peace in the State which the Government has miserably failed to put an end to such type of shameful actions.
Pradesh Congress Committee held a largely attended meeting of party workers at Sopore today. The meeting was presided over by PCC President G A Mir.
Senior Congress Leaders Taj Mohi U Din (Former Minister), Tariq Hamid Karra (Ex. MP), MLA Sopore Haji Ab Rashid Dar, MLA Gulzar Ahmad Wani, MLC Gulam Nabi Monga, MLC Mohd Muzaffar Parray and other senior party functionaries addressed the meeting and strongly condemned the unabated braid chopping in the Valley and asked the Government to come clean over the issue.
He said had there been no contradiction among the coalition partners, the genuine concerns of the people would have got addressed, if not fully, but to some extent, but the differences, surfaced from time to time, between the coalition partners have added chaos to the situation, as a result, common people in all the three regions were the worst hit, besides the misrule and mismanagement of the situations arising from time to time have added woes to people not only in Kashmir, but Jammu and Ladakh also.
Stating that from this place (Sopore), I want to refresh the memory of Chief Minister that whenever any untoward incidents happened at any place in past, she (CM) without looking right and left has blown things out of proportion, thereby misleading people in order to gain political mileage, but what happened today,  asked Mir.
While addressing former Minister Taj Mohi U Din urged upon the people to get united and defeat the nefarious designs of anti-peace and anti-social activists behind unabated braid cutting incidents.
Mentioning that people are being subjected mental torture Senior Congress Leader & Ex. MP Tariq Hamid Karra blamed the Coalition Partners (PDP BJP) for failing to create a congenial atmosphere in the State.
He said people in all the three regions have realized that the vote to PDP and BJP in 2014 elections has brought death and destruction only, as a result they were feeling dejected over the way they are being treated.
Addressing the meeting MLA Sopore & Vice President Haji Abdul Rashid Dar accused PDP of playing with the emotions of people.
Among others who addressed the meeting included MLC Vice President Gulam Nabi Monga, MLA Gulzar Ahmad Wani, Mohd Muzaffar Parray, Mohd Anwar Bhat, Spokesperson Farooq Andrabi General Secretaries PCC Shoiab Nabi Lone, Surinder Singh Channi, District Presidents Aftab Ahmad Beigh, Haji Farooq Mir, Imtiyaz Parray and others.