Srinagar: Over three hundred workers of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party including Chief Coordinator Shehzad Asim from Apple Town Sopore resigned from the party on Wednesday.
Resigning from the Peoples Democratic Party, musician turned politician Dr Shahzad Asim said that he will give a befitting reply to the party as an independent candidate from Sopore constituency in upcoming Assembly elections scheduled later for this year.
Asim claimed that he was ditched from the party leadership which promised him mandate from the Sopore constituency several years back and asked to work hard to hone the constituency.
I was ditched by the same leadership which assured me mandate from Sopore constituency four years back. After I significantly reached out to people in all nooks and corners of the constituency and mobilized them in the interest of the pary, the high command later succumbed to the pressure from some of its leaders and awarded the ticket to the relative of party general secretary Muhammad Dilawar Mir, he said.
Asim said that most of the people who fight on party tickets from different constituencies of valley are close relatives of each other while the common supporters who braved all odds for the party have been sidelined.
He said Mir has played a pivotal role in nominating his brother-in-law Nazir Ahmad Naikoo from Sopore on PDP ticket since he eyes for the Chief Ministerial post after Mufti Mohammad Syaeed.
Mir is eying to become Chief Minister of state and he has managed to secure some tickets for his relatives in the party. It is a strong lobby attempting to shrink the space of party and hold it hostage to its own interests, he alleged.
After the party convention, 364 workers in the premises of Dak Bungalow amid anti PDP slogans set their party cards on fire and declared their resignation.
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