Srinagar, June 12: Peoples Democratic Party patron Mufti Muhammad Sayeed Tuesday asked the party workers to “aggressively pursue the party’s agenda because people of J&K have endorsed its policies and programmes from time to time.”
  “PDP has translated its promises into realities. So people of the state have very high hopes from our party,” Mufti, according to a party statement, told the workers.
 Addressing district committee meetings of Islamabad (Anantnag) and Kulgam districts, Mufti said that “PDP, through its works during its short span of tenure, has earned credibility of the people of Jammu and Kashmir and the masses are looking towards PDP to get their aspirations addressed.”
 “People have realized that only PDP has the vision and conviction to solve their problems. So they have pinned their hopes on the party,” Mufti said, urging the workers to come up to the expectations of the people.
 “The programmes and policies of the PDP are formulated after incorporating wishes and aspirations of all regions and sub-regions of the state,” he said. “You have to categorically tell the people that agenda of PDP is to solve the Kashmir problem and to establish lasting peace in this region.”
 Mufti said the “Politics of our party is not only to attain power. The aim is to restore lasting peace in this region and to establish a system where every section of the society would get justice and equal opportunities for development and economic growth.”
 Speaking on the occasion, former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Beigh said that peace process initiated by the Government headed by Mufti Muhammad Sayeed was “an irreversible process and roadmap laid by his party is the only way to establish sustainable peace in the sub-continent.”
 “It was all due to the convictions of Mufti Muhammad Sayeed that the then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee extended a hand of friendship towards Pakistan at the time when tension between the two countries was high on the borders,” he said, adding, “PDP through its pro-peace polices convinced both the neighboring countries to break the ice and take some Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) for restoration of peace in this region.”
 Beigh said: “Whatever steps Mufti Sayeed had initiated for restoring peace, successive regimes at Delhi endorsed them.”
 Beigh said that with just 16 MLAs in its kitty, PDP had “not only changed political discourse of the state but also restored dignity and honour of the people of state by pursuing pro-peace agenda.”
 "The process of reconciliation and to change destiny of the people is still incomplete because the present regime during the last three and half years has failed to connect itself with the common masses," he said.
 Beigh reminded that after 2002, PDP had entered into alliance with Congress after formally formation of the Common Minimum Programme (CMP). “Unlike National Conference, we never compromised our agenda for the sake of power”, he said.

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