Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 14: Senior vice president of People’s Conference and former minister Abdul Gani Vakil today alleged that people of Jammu and Kashmir are today suffering due to the historical blunders committed by National Conference and PDP.
Addressing workers convention at Hamam Markut, in Rafiabad today Vakil said the credit for all the political instability and uncertainty in the valley goes to traditional political parties like NC and PDP for their power-hungry politics. Vakil today said that people are dying because of the historical mistakes made by NC and PDP leadership from time to time.
“Because of NC and PDP blunders, people of the J&K and specially from valley are suffering. People of the state are the victims of their blunders, especially the Indira-Sheikh Accord in 1975,” he added.
In 1975 had the leadership of NC not surrendered, the Centre Govt would have been forced to restore the position of 1953 and we would not have faced feud, thousands of lives wouldn’t have been lost, people wouldn’t have faced the carnage”, Vakil said while lambasting the previous regimes for their role in various machinations against the people of the state.
He said history is a witness to the fact that NC and PDP can go to any extent for the lust of power. If the traditional political parties would have been honest towards the people of J&K then Kashmir would not have been miserably suffering.
Vakil also slammed the BJP led NDA Government at Centre for abrogation of Article 370 and reducing J&K state to Union Territory. “Article 370 was virtually a bridge between J&K and rest of the country but it is unfortunate that the present dispensation at Centre destroyed it and with the result they have created a huge wedge between people of J&K with rest of the country and added to the large extent in alienation and distancing people from mainstream.”
Vakil also said that the Government has failed to address problems of people living in far-flung areas of the Valley. Vakil said residents of upper belt of Rafiabad are craving for development with most of the villages facing electricity crisis, drinking water shortage besides dilapidated road condition.
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