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| PDP scoffs at NC offer to give up power | | 'If honest why did it rig elections' |  Srinagar, May 18(Scoop News) –Flaying the National Conference for its attempt at trivializing the Kashmir issue Peoples Democratic Party today said the six decade old problem was not about power but addressing Kashmir problem that have turned state into a festering sore for its citizens and the entire region. Responding to NC's so called offer of relinquishing power if Hurriyat decided to join elections senior party leader and former finance minister Tariq Hameed Qarra today told workers meetings at Chinkral Mohalla, Habbakadal and Reiteng, Khanyar that the ruling party had traditionally looked at Kashmir issue only in terms of power and nothing beyond that. Party president Mehbooba Mufti presided over the meetings and addressed workers. On these occasions District president & MLC Mohd Ashraf Mir, Secretary Cordination Ab Hameed Kosheen, Cordinator Aadil Jan, Nisar Ahmed Mandoo, Mudasir Khan, Zonal presidents Showkat Hafiz,Muneeb Ahmed, youth leaders Showkat Gayoor, Syed Irfan, Jahangir Wani, Parvez Ahmed , Jeelani Kumar and others were also present.
Qarra said NC leaders made such offers only to mislead the people and hog headlines. Otherwise, it would have allowed at least a free election whenever it was in power, he added. He said for NC all decisions taken by it always revolved round power arrangement, whether it was accession or the 1975 accord when it sold out immense sacrifices given by the people under its leadership. "NC thought only of power for itself and its first family when it could have bargained for a fair political solution" he said.
Qarra said NC rigged elections in 1987 when all elements of state politics were in the fray pushing them into resistance and the entire population into an unending trouble. Now who would buy its so called offer to give up power for which it has sacrificed thousands of lives of Kashmiris, resources of the state and its own conscience, he wondered. "After 1996 elections when sky was on the platter for J&K, the NC government found safety in selling the autonomy resolution and 7 most feasible power projects as a price for power" he said.
Referring to the contribution of PDP to Kashmir situation during its brief stint in power, Mehbooba Mufti said though it is unfair to compare three years with NC's three decades but her party had tried to change the environment of despair and terror in which it had succeeded considerably. She said process of dialogue had taken off at the highest level and jails had no political detainees. "The state instruments of abuse like the SOG and Ikhwan were dismantled but the present govt brought back insecurity and police raj" she said reminding her audience how 120 youngsters were killed on the streets even though they carried no weapons. To add insult to injury she said the NC had dubbed them as Lashkar activists, drug addicts, goondas and threat to peace. "Even school going children were charged with murder, handcuffed, paraded publicly and thousands of them continue to face prosecution" she said.
Referring to the complete collapse of governance Mehbooba said the death of 360 children in Srinagar pediatric hospital is a national tragedy for the state. Such a crisis was always in the making, but when we raised these issues in and out of assembly, the chief minister accused opposition of subverting his government, she said. "It needs a callous and conscience less government like the present one to brazen out such a grave issue without even expressing an apology to the kin of the infants" she added.
Mehbooba said the coalition government had only two uses for the funds received under various schemes. It either spends them for benefiting their favorite contractors or making back door appointment of its storm troopers who actually make up the ready to use audience for its 'public meetings', she said. The hospital development fund was utilized to pay wages of NC workers resulting in the tragedies like the one in Panth hospital. She said though hospitals have been stuffed with hundreds of NC workers, the posts of nurses and paramedical staff who are actually needed are nobody's business.
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