Srinagar, May 14(Scoop News) –Castigating PDP leadership for surviving on falsehood and blame game, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah Monday questioned this party’s delivery on the promises made to people during its tenure.
“Those (PDP leadership) who raised the slogan of healing touch used maximum force against the people and converted politics into trade”, he said adding that it was PDP regime who at one hand asked the militants to drop guns and talk and on the other blacklisted their relatives for providing passports for Haj.
Addressing a public gathering after inaugurating Hospital building at Rainawari here, the Chief Minister said that adventurism; deceit and converting politics into trade has been the trait of PDP and its leadership since its inception.
Omar Abdullah said that those who are delivering us lectures on issues miserably failed during their time to address public difficulties and work for their redressal. “They traded miseries of people to attain the Chief Ministership of the State”, he said and reminded the PDP Patron of the use of power by him against the people of Kashmir as the then Home Minister through his nominated and trusted man Jagmohan who was the then Governor of the State. “People have not forgotten the massacre let loose on civilian at Gaokadal, Islamia College and other places by Jagmohan under the orders of the then Home Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed”, he said.
“Ask Gorge Farnandes, who is fortunately alive how Mufti manipulated bringing in Jagmohan as the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir to pave the way for him (Mufti) to become the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir”, he said and give resume of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s attempts to scuttle the NC-Congress coalition in 1987.
“He (Mufti) was the person who as PCC Chief tried its best to defeat NC-Congress coalition then. People are witnessed to the fact how he even being the PCC Chief in the State was campaigning for MUF candidates. People are also witnessed to the fact how he traded the chair of Home Minister of India to save his daughter at the cost of the Nation”, he added and said that plain speaking and truthfulness is his and his government’s characteristics.
“We are not making noise over issues but deliver on these through actions”, he maintained and said that 40 bunkers have been removed from Srinagar city alone during the last three years. He said that his endeavours for restoration of peace and amicable addressing of political issues along with equitable and comprehensive development of all the three regions of the State are clear and visible before the people. “They judge us by our actions not hollow slogans and false propaganda”, he asserted.
The Chief Minister said that they (PDP leadership) first confused people through propaganda on holding of panchayat elections but when my government accomplished this historic task with success and full public support, started misinformation against the transfer of powers to panchayats. When we transferred the powers, they (PDP) overnight pretended to be the champions of the interests of residents of Srinagar city and started yet another propaganda regarding neglecting Srinagar. When we presented a long list of people-friendly measures taken by the coalition government and achievements registered on comprehensive development on Srinagar, they started shifting their blames on us”, he said and added that during the tenure of PDP the most sufferers were the people of Srinagar city especially those living in Shaher-e-Khas.
“PDP launched police recruitment through Director General of Police in entire Valley but isolated Srinagar in this case. We made direct recruitments in the city covering seven Assembly Segments recruiting over 2000 youth in Police Department after long period of 22 years. We macadamized the city and launched 10 new bridges at cost of about Rs. 100 crores. Under ERA projects involving Rs. 122 crores have been launched in the city for the development of roads, bridges and water supply schemes”, he said and added that Rs. 38.14 crores Nagar Nagar Tourist Circuit in Shaher-i-Khas has already been taken in hand besides developing Chinar Bagh at Rs. 3.34 crores.
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