PDP safeguarded JK’s interests in coalition with BJP: Veeri
Srinagar: In coalition with the BJP in Jammu and Kashmir, the PDP “safeguarded the interests of Jammu and Kashmir under the very challenging circumstances”, PDP Vice President Abdul Rahman Veeri has claimed.
Speaking at a one day workers’ convention in Srinagar, Veeri said as head of the coalition government, Mehbooba Mufti “always advocated for dialogue with stakeholders and made earnest efforts to bring lasting peace in the state”.
He asked the party supporters to “highlight the achievements of the party which in spite of trying circumstances was able to uphold its principles and didn’t compromise on its ideology”.
PDP General Secretary Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura, PDP’s Srinagar District President Mohammad Khurshid Alam, state secretary and former MLA Batamaloo Noor Mohammad Sheikh also attended the convention.
Veeri in his address said that PDP has “emerged as the best alternative to despotic and anarchic rule in state’s political landscape and provided a platform to a common man to seek resolution of his grievances”.
Flayed the NIA raids and constant highway closure in the state, Hanjura termed such measures “bizarre and deeply disturbing for common masses who have been riddled already by the 30 year long bodied conflict”.
He said the business community was made to reel under distress due to the highway closure with students, patients and employees made to suffer sadistically for no reason.
“The way newspapers, journalists and businessmen are hounded, looks nothing less than a witch hunt and such steps instead of helping to find solution to the problems confronting the state, will further complicate the situation,” he said.
Party’s Srinagar District President for Srinagar Mohammad Khurshid Alam said that Kashmir was a “human issue that merits human approach”.
The situation, he opined, should not be looked through the prism of security and that people at the helm at centre must own the sufferings of the people and invest in peace to end the decades long conflict.
Others who took part in the convention include Abdul Hameed Kosheen, Dr Ali Mohammad, Zone President Batamaloo Bashir Ahmad, Arif Laigaroo, Abdul Qayoom, Haji Mohammad Ashraf Bhat, Tousif Ahmad, Muzaffar Ahmad, Shahzad Ahmad, Fancy Jan, Ghulam Nabi and several others.
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