Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 23: Asking the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi to get his facts corrected before commenting on other parties, PDP president, Mehbooba Mufti said it seems that the Prime Minister has serious gaps in his knowledge on Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing various roadside meetings in Homshalibugh Assembly constituency in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district, she said when Prime Minister of India speaks on serious matters one would ordinarily expect him to be correct on facts whatever his opinion on different issues. “Even election time rhetoric should be restricted to decent levels and when the Prime Minister of the country speaks he should not allow it to look ridiculous as his comments about PDP in Kishtwar address sounded,” Mehbooba said.
She said everybody in Jammu and Kashmir and rest of country is aware of the integrity and credentials of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and the fact that his party has introduced a much needed corrective into the democratic system of the State by offering a credible and serious regional alternative to the people. “The three years that Mufti Mohammad Sayeed-led coalition served the State are still remembered as a reference point for good governance and political maturity which changed the scenario not just in Jammu and Kashmir but in the entire region,” the PDP chief said.
She said in fact the former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee publically acknowledged the positive change that Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had brought in the atmosphere and on the ground in Jammu and Kashmir and could take his historic initiative on the State and about Pakistan only after change of Government in the State.
The PDP president said the BJP is viewing PDP as the only stumbling block to its disruptive designs for the State that is why perhaps the Prime Minster tried to paint NC and PDP by the same brush. “While the PDP has established itself as a platform for a pluralistic and inclusive Jammu and Kashmir the BJP has been trying to polarize the situation in Jammu in its favor and divide the vote through underhand means in Kashmir and other parts of the State but the people will not let them succeed in their divisive agenda,” Mehbooba asserted.
Mehbooba said though the BJP Government has been paying lip service to the Vajpayee policy on Jammu and Kashmir there has so far been no evidence of any initiative in that direction. “The atmosphere of hope generated by inviting Pakistan Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif for Modi’s inauguration was unnecessarily reversed by calling off the Secretary level talks with Pakistan on flimsy grounds,” she said.
While referring about the damages caused due to recent floods, Mehbooba said though it is a massive challenge to rebuild the lives, infrastructure and homes again but it will be the top most priority of the PDP to re-establish Kashmir afresh in a planned way once it is voted to form the Government.
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