Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday held a high level meeting of its cadres in Srinagar, asking them to speed up their activities and maintain close coordination between party workers, activists and supporters, a PDP spokesman said in a statement.
He said the meetingwas chaired by party vice-president Abdul Rahman Veeri. Others who attended themeeting included the party general secretary GhulamNabi Lone Hanjura, statesecretary AsiyaNaqash, district president Srinagar Muhammad KhurshidAlam,Muhammad Ashraf Mir, Abdul QayoomWani, Noor Muhammad Sheikh and several others.
Speaking on the occasion, Veeri expressed concern over thedevelopment deficit being witnessed in Srinagar with majority of thedevelopmental projects gone into limbo.
According to the PDP vice-president, people of Srinagar havebeen exposed to severe hardships due to the lack of basic amenities withmounting crises of water and bad roads leaving the city inhabitants in lurch.
He said majority of the roads in Srinagar have been leftunattended with macadamisation being given a least priority. According to Veeri the absence ofdevelopmental activities has created a crisis like situation on ground and needof the hour is to stand up and raise issues pertaining to common man and getthem resolved on priority.
The party general secretary GhulamNabi Lone Hanjura in hisaddress said the best model for the good governance is the period between 2002and 2005 and that after the 2014 polls the PDP didn’t get a clear mandate andout of the compulsion had to join hands with the BJP.
Hanjura said that PDP remained consistently firm on itsagenda which was included in agenda of alliance and that was the reason the BJP had to run away from coalition. He said that party’s firm belief on itsprinciples led the BJP to turn its back and being in the government PDP keptinsisting for the withdrawal of the FIRs, amnesty for the stone pelters, andreturn of the power projects from the NHPC.
Former minister and state secretary AseyaNaqash said thatthe PDP led government took courageous and brave measures that protected thestate from the BJP’s onslaught. Aseyasaid that within the government as head of the coalition government and aschief minister, Mehbooba Mufti resisted every attempt by the central governmentto take any inroads on the constitutional position of the state and freed morethan 12 thousand youth who were arrested in stone pelting cases besidescompelling the central government to announce unilateral ceasefire.
Party’s Srinagar District President Muhammad KhurshidAlam inhis address stressed for the greater coordination between the partyfunctionaries and stated that time is near when the PDP will emerge as aresplendent torch that could guide Kashmir’s future generations towardsprosperity. In spite of being in coalition with the BJP, said Alam, the PDP didn’t allow thelater to fulfil its nefarious agenda inKashmir and the government employed country’s best lawyers for the protectionof Article 35-A in the Supreme Court.
Other PDP leaders who were part of the meeting include AbdulHameed Kosheen, Dr Ali Mohammad, Abdul RoufBhat, AirfLaigaroo, Haji Parvez, Abdul Qayoom, and several others.