Jammu, March 18 (Scoop News) –Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)chief Mehbooba Mufti today regretted that instead of treating all regions equally,the present government has adopting discriminatory attitude in developmental and other activities. “It is unfortunate instead of acting like head of the government, the Chief Minister is behaving like block president of NC or a constable of Special Operation Group (SoG) of the police”, she said and charged the Chief Minister with acting in vindictive manner. “You are Chief Minister of the State so you should not behave like a block president of NC”, she advised the Chief Minister and informed the House of J&K Assembly how Chief Minister had acted during district development board meetings at Anantnag, Pulwama and Shopian.
Speaking on the grants of the departments fall under the purview of Chief Minister, PDP chief Cautioned the government against under estimating the brewing anger among youth of the State.She said that failure of the National Conference led coalition to address aspirations of the people has fueling alienation of common masses.
Mehbooba said that present government headed by NC lacks vision as well as road map. “Instead of carving out a path of development and growth, this government has been working on the
roadmap prepared by the previous PDP-Congress regime”, she observed but added that this government was hesitating to accept this hard reality.
Countering charges of Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather, who had blamed PDP-Congress led regime with diverting funds, Mehbooba Mufti said that funds were diverted only to fulfill liabilities created by the previous NC regime. “Your government’s noticeable achievement was
Baglihar project only but the same was started with financial closure so we had to fulfill that libality”, she pointed out and reminded the House that before singing MoU with the then Central government to ban recruitments, the then National Conference regime had appointed 2000 persons through backdoor and all of the back door entrants were relatives of NC leaders and workers. “Our government had to bear that extra financial burden of the relatives of NC leaders who were appointed through backdoors”, she said.
“Instead of fulfilling the promises this regime has been looking for excuses to hide its failures”, she said and pointed out that after Aluchi Bagh incident the Chief Minister had promised to dismiss the officers who was involved in the killing.
She said that during the regime of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the Central Government had sanctioned an amount of Rs 24000 crores for the development of State under Prime Minister’s
Reconstruction Plan. She further mentioned that many developmental projects were started during PDP-Congress regime with the financial assistance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).