Excelsior Correspondent
BANDIPORA, Dec 28: National Conference today alleged inclusion of Tassaduq Mufti, the younger brother of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti in the State Cabinet was a cruel joke with the people of this State.
Addressing party workers’ convention at Bandipora today, provincial president of the party for Kashmir Nasir Aslam Wani said that the PDP was guided by a singular goal of empowering a single family while the State is being ruined and its resources misused.
Wani further said that the inclusion of the CM’s brother into the State Cabinet was a cruel joke with the people of the State, who continue to suffer with each passing day due to the political and administrative failures of the PDP-BJP Government led by Mehbooba Mufti.
Senior NC leader MA Lone besides party leaders including provincial secretary Showkat Ahmed Mir, former MLA Bandipora Ghulam Rasool Naz, Mohd Abdullah Wani, Nazir Ahmed Malik, District president YNC Dr Abdul Hameed, Youth leader Sameer Iqbal in addition to party block presidents and block secretaries were also present on the occasion.
“Ever since its inception, PDP has been guided by the singular goal of seeking political power while being bereft of any ideological convictions. This party bartered its mandate and sold its conscience to the BJP in 2015 only to secure the Chief Minister’s chair for Late Mufti Mohd Sayeed, followed by Mehbooba Mufti. Today PDP has carried on this trend of deceit for self-seeking ambitions by elevating a practically unknown entity to the State Cabinet after the gentleman, facing imminent defeat, literally ran away from the Anantnag Parliamentary elections and then went on to seek a place of extra-constitutional power in the Civil Secretariat as the appointed head of the CM’s Grievance Cell”, Wani said.
While questioning the qualifications and political experience of Tassaduq Mufti, Wani said his history of jumping from one opportunity to another spoke about his priorities and mindset. He ran away from the Anantnag election and now he has run away from the CM’s Grievance Cell. He has spent the last year or more developing a coterie of young businessmen and together with them interfered in the transfer processes of the Government at the highest levels. In his elevation, the same coterie of young businessmen are being empowered with unbridled powers to wreak havoc with administrative neutrality while being granted a backdoor access to the resources of the State”, the NC leader added.
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