Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, Nov 23: President of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti today said that people of Jammu and Kashmir are fed up with the present setup and they want a change.
Addressing public meetings in Loren and Poonch, PDP president said that problems of the common masses are mounting with every passing day, especially during the last four years, due to mis-governance and rampant corruption. She said that people, who have been bearing brunt of the mal-administration and mis-governance of coalition headed by National Conference, want a change to get rid of this worst ever corrupt dispensation in the State.
She said that people of the State are looking towards PDP to get them rid from the yoke of the present National Conference-Congress regime which during the last four years has done nothing except promises with the people.
“People all over the State face all sorts of problems but people living in far flung areas are the worst suffers of the wrong policies of this regime”, she said, adding, “resident of far-flung areas are deprived of basic amenities and facilities like roads, drinking water, power and health facilities”.
Pointing towards day-to-day problems being faced by the people due to mis-governance and prevailing corruption, Ms Mufti said that people are not getting enough ration to feed their families. “To add to the woes is the cumbersome process adopted in LPG gas registration and its unavailability and black marketing of the LPG”, she pointed out and regretted that State Government has failed to provide any relief to the people regarding LPG crisis.
PDP president said that all sections of the society are bearing brunt of the wrong policies of this regime but youth are the worst sufferers. “The number of unemployed youth is going up and the State Government is sitting on more than one lakh posts which are lying vacant in different departments”, she said and added that back door entries in different departments have already discredited the employment policy of present regime and shaken the faith of youth .
“There are apprehensions that these one lakh posts too may be divided on basis of favoritism and cash through back door entries”, she said.
Taking a dig at coalition regime for patronizing corruption in the State, she said, “to add to the woes of people the rampant corruption has made life hell for common man. This helpless situation has forced people all over to think about how to change the present corrupt inefficient system”, she said.
“Comparisons are being drawn between earlier PDP-Congress Government and present regime”, she said.
Senior PDP leader Tariq Hamid Qarra said that NC had always exploited people for their lust of power. Whenever, it suited them they became the strongest supporters of accession with India and enemies of Pakistan but once out of power they were the worst enemies of the same country. He said that NC leaders looted the State emotionally as well as economically to build their own empires. “Deceit, corruption and nepotism became their hallmark,” he observed.
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