Excelsior Correspondent
BARAMULLA, May 4: Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir People’s Conference (JKPC), Sajad Gani Lone, today said that National Conference and People’s Democratic Party have made corruption, nepotism and cronyism hallmarks of their politics.
Addressing thousands of people in Batagund and Langate, Lone said, “Kashmiris have been deprived of the right to dream of a better future by traditional political parties as the dreams of the common-man -those of dignity, prosperity and progress- were detrimental to the manipulative political system these parties represent. It’s time for a Kashmiri to dream beyond the political and economic limits designed and enforced by NC and PDP.”
The JKPC chairman said the time has now come to give these inept, dishonest and uncaring political entities a befitting reply by rejecting them in the Parliament polls. He said Kashmir has been the most misruled and corruption-ridden State and this has been a shame that has lasted through the tenure of successive Governments in the State.
He said NC and PDP have let down Kashmiri at every critical juncture of the history. “Be it the hanging of Maqbool Bhatt or the hanging of Afzal Guru, NC was the co-signatory to both these travesties of justice. NC has at every crucial juncture deceived the people of Kashmir and joined those who oppress and persecute them rather than standing up to such oppressive and communal lobbies”, he added.
“NC is the patron political party of Ikhwanis and the Task Force and is responsible for all the injustice and barbarism that Ikhwanis and the Task Force meted out to the people of Kashmir” Sajad asserted and added that it was the responsibility of the people to ensure that the killers of Kashmiris don’t get to occupy seats of power.