Excelsior Correspondent
Chrar-e-Sharief, May 22: National Conference today alleged that PDP’s deceitful politics has threatened the State’s political identity and special status as the party was now blatantly facilitating successive assaults on Article 370 and the State Subject laws.
Addressing a workers’ convention at Brenwaar in Chrar-e-Sharief today, senior NC leader and former Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather said that PDP has now abandoned all promises made in its ‘Agenda of the Alliance’ with the BJP just like the party had earlier abandoned every single promise in its 2002 manifesto.
Mr Rather said PDP’s ‘Agenda of the Alliance’ was based on three pillars of deception. “First PDP promised the revocation of AFSPA if voted to power. The present Chief Minister used every single election platform to promise that she would revoke AFSPA if her party was voted into power. Exposing PDP’s intentions, the Central Government has officially – in replies to question in the Parliament – refused to even review the possibility of revocation. People still remember how PDP had promised to get AFSPA revoked in its 2002 election manifesto. Both in 2002, when PDP came to power with Congress and in 2014 when PDP joined the BJP – it has effortlessly given up on the demand to get AFSPA revoked in exchange for the Chief Minister’s chair”, the senior NC leader said.
“The second pillar of the PDP-BJP ‘Agenda of the Alliance’ was to ensure the return of power projects from the NHPC to the State of J&K. In the last year, the Union Power Minister and the Central Government have officially and categorically rubbished this demand on two different occasions. A couple of days ago the Union Power Minister has again made it amply clear that the BJP-led NDA Government was not willing to even consider the return of power projects nor would it agree to increase the power-share for the State in hydel projects owned by NHPC. With this, the second pillar of the ‘Agenda of the Alliance’ has collapsed without any scope of review”, Mr Rather said.
“ The third pillar of the ‘Agenda of the Alliance’ was PDP’s promise to get the Central Government to engage in meaningful and sustained dialogue with Hurriyat leadership and also with Islamabad. “Not only have Hurriyat leaders been prevented from going to New Delhi to meet visiting diplomatic delegations for the first time in the last two decades, PDP has also ensured an unprecedented crackdown on Hurriyat leaders.
Creation of Sainik Colony and NEET issues are serious, well-conceived and elaborate plans to change the State’s demography and by-pass its State Subject laws and subvert its special status,” senior NC leader added.
Provincial president of NC Nasir Aslam Wani highlighted the enormous failure of the PDP-BJP Government in dispensing its basic governance related responsibilities and said people were being politically persecuted to quell an overwhelming opposition against PDP at the grassroots level. He alleged that ration depots were empty and people were badly suffering. Moreover, macadamized roads despite warranty of three years have turned into potholed paths within just a few months.
The convention was also addressed by NC leader MLC Ali Mohammad Dar, Manzoor Ahmed Wani and Master Maqbool Ahmed.
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