Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader and MP designate Tariq Hameed Karra said that the recent results of Lok Sabha polls should act as a wakeup call for politicians of the state.
He said that the results have sent across a loud and clear message to the political parties in J&K. The political parties have to perform or perish, the PDP leader said.
He said the post-poll scenario would infuse fresh accountability in the states political setup which is good in the larger interest of the people.
The results are a wake-up call for all the political parties that they cant take the people for a ride through hollow slogans as has been happening in the past, Karra said while addressing a series of thanksgiving public meetings in Chrar-e-Sharief Assembly segment of Srinagar-Budgam Parliamentary constituency wherefrom he was elected to the Lok Sabha by defeating National Conference president and former Union Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah.
Karra accused the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah of having wasted six years of J&K through misgovernance and non-performance and putting a virtual freeze on development.
If anything the present government would be is facilitating hundreds of innocent killings, letting loose a reign of repression on youth, ordering wanton arrests, perpetuating fear and sense of insecurity, promoting socio-economic instability, frightening increase in crime rate, menacing drug abuse, deaths in road rage, vanishing rule of law, rampant corruption, shocking scams, institutional degradation, misgovernance, dilapidated roads, power shortage, drinking water scarcity, non-availability of rations, frustrating unemployment, maladministration, spurious medicines, maddening traffic snarls and countless other anti-people measures, the PDP leader said.
He said if people have voted for PDP, it is only because of the performance of PDP-led coalition government headed by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed between 2002 and 2005. The signposts PDP-led governments developmental initiatives are visible in every nook and corner of the State and people have endorsed the same by voting overwhelmingly for the party in the Lok Sabha polls, he said and added that with the fresh mandate the party would rededicate itself to the larger cause of the people of J&K.
Karra said PDP views with satisfaction the growing concord of the people with the partys progressive and inclusive political and economic agenda for J&K. As reflected in the outcome of recent elections to the Lok Sabha the endorsement of PDPs agenda strengthens the partys resolve to rededicate itself towards seeking dignified resolution of the political and economic problems facing the State and its people, he said.
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