Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 6: The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) today lashed out at the outgoing Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, for trying to subvert the efforts of PDP in carrying forward the peace and reconciliation initiatives.
“After having failed to provide any relief to the people in his six years rule, Omar Abdullah is now trying to subvert any chance of movement in taking forward the peace and reconciliation initiatives that were started in 2003 and frozen under the NC-led coalition’s tenure ,” the party chief spokesperson Naeem Akhtar said in a statement.
He was responding to the outgoing Chief Minister’s tweet from London: “When I raised AFSPA, I was accused of playing politics with national security. The BJP negotiates Government formation with the PDP using AFSPA and that is okay? ”
He said Omar Abdullah nearly celebrated the eruption of violence along the borders with Pakistan and has now taken exception to the PDP’s efforts at revocation of AFSPA on which he ran his politics since 2011 to divert attention from his failures, corruption, killings, crime and shady dealings. “Whenever he found himself caught on back foot during his tenure as the Chief Minister, whether in Haji Yousuf’s mysterious death at his residence, Markundal killings, Gool atrocities, Gargrin killings, BOPEE Scam, Cricket Scam, Drug Scam, death of infants at Children Hospital, PHE Scam, land grab scam etc., Omar raised AFSPA revocation issue,” Akhtar said.
The PDP chief spokesperson said despite having full support of the Centre and his alliance partner- Congress, Omar Abdullah couldn’t achieve anything for the people of Jammu and Kashmir. “Instead he used Congress and the UPA’s support to unleash terror on the people and just survived as a Chief Minister,” he added.
Akhtar said the NC working president was heading a coalition without any agenda and CMP. “Omar’s only aim was to become the Chief Minister for the sake of it and he concluded the deal with the Congress in half an hour in December 2008, with just one condition that he will be the Chief Minister for six years,” he said and added instead of getting anything substantial for the State he eroded the prestige of the Chief Minister’s position and bartered the state’s interests for power.
“His mis-governance and corruption has left the State in a shambles with development process almost abandoned and Government facing bankruptcy with bills worth thousands of crores pending in the treasuries,” the PDP chief spokesperson added.
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