Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 26: Senior PDP leaders, Daman Bhasin and Thakur Fallail Singh today resigned from the party, alleging that the party has become second fiddle to the National Conference and has been hacked by the unscrupulous and communal elements.
“The only mission of the late Mufti Mohd Sayeed to form PDP was to challenge the hegemony of one dynasty party (NC) and also to bridge the regional and communal divide in highly sensitive state of J&K. Throughout his life, late Mufti Mohd Sayeed trid assiduously to remove trust deficit among different religions and also among different regions and sub-regions of the erstwhile state of J&K but after his demise, the party was virtually hijacked by those having parochial and communal approach,” said Daman Bhasin (state general secretary of PDP) and Thakur Fallail Singh (state secretary of PDP), in a resignation letter to the party high command.
The PDP leaders said that instead of carrying forward the visionary secular agenda of late Mufti Mohd Sayeed, party leadership is brazenly indulged into pursuing communal politics which is against the vision of its founder who w as a shining example of secularism and communal harmony.
“Instead of pursuing Mufti Sahib’s visionary agenda, the incumbent leadership of the party is following dictates of some communal elements, thus deviating from the basic principles, agenda and philosophy, making it difficult to face the saner voices in the society,” they added.
Bhasin and Fallail said that since the demise of Mufti Mohd Sayeed, senior leaders, especially founder members of the party, are feeling suffocated and humiliated by the communal and unscrupulous elements which have been given free hand by the leadership just to create communal divide in J&K.
“The party leadership has recently given some highly provocative and controversial statements against the basic principles of the founder of the party and so being disciples of late Mufti Mohd Sayeed, it has become difficult for us to work in the party,” the two PDP leaders said in their resignation letter.
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