Corruption main reason for youth to distance themselves from mainstream: PC
Srinagar: Peoples Conference senior vice president and former minister Abdul Gani Vakil has alleged that the twin regional parties of the NC-PDP had played a “devious, negative role in disempowering the people of the state”.
In a statement issued Saturday, Vakil said the twin parties, “by sidelining grassroots democratic institutions and centralising power within two dynastic cores have drowned the state in mis-governance, nepotism and corruption”.
Vakil said that corruption was one of the major factors in distancing youth from mainstream politics.
He said the “unending corruption, favouritism and nepotism by the successive NC and PDP governments is the main reasons for worsening of the peaceful atmosphere of the state”.
“It is time for the political leaders to wonder if surrendering their dignity at the service of these two corrupt dynasties is worth it”, he added.
Vakil further added that NC and PDP had left no stone unturned to “plunder the state and deprive its young of opportunities to dream of a bright future”.
“Today, Dr Farooq Abdullah has the audacity and shamelessness to talk about ending corruption in the state. What about the 115 crore JKCA scam in which he is charge sheeted?” Vakil asked.
“Does he have no shame left? If anyone is the prime culprit for loot and plunder of Kashmir’s resources, it is National Conference,” he said.
Vakil asked for a white paper on the erosion of the state’s special autonomous status and said the white paper would list, with details, the “complicity of the National Conference and the PDP founders in the erosion of Article 370”.
“We will also come out with a white paper on massive loot, plunder and corruption in the State pioneered by the twin dynasties who have amassed thousands of crores in unearned wealth by robbing the State of funds and through kickbacks at the cost of effective development in Jammu and Kashmir,” he added.
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