GNS Hiranagar (Kathua), May 27: Reiterating resolve of his party to
aggressively pursue the pro-peace agenda, patron of Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said that prevailing peace on
the borders, from Kathua to Kargil, was result of the reconciliation
process started by the PDP during its tenure.
Addressing an impressive public meeting in border area of Hiranagar,
Mufti said that PDP had pioneered a peace and reconciliation process
which was endorsed by the successive regimes at New Delhi and
Islambad. "PDP has shown in the past that it can facilitate the
resolution process with prudence, and it is ready to shoulder the
responsibility of taking the process to its logical conclusion," he
asserted and reminded the people that it was all due to the efforts of
PDP that residents of border areas were living peaceful life.
“In 2002 we had only 16 members but still we had pursued the peace
process and established peace in this region. It was all due to the
efforts of the PDP that peace was restored in the sub-continent”, he
said.
“It was all due to the credibility of the PDP that previous NDA regime
headed by Atal Behari Vajpayee and present UPA government led by Dr
Manmohan Singh whole heartedly supported initiatives taken by us for
restoring peace in this region", Mr Sayeed said while recalling the
historic rally of then Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee at Kashmir
on April18, 2003 when he had extended hands of friendship towards
Pakistan at the time when tension was running high on borders.
Highlighting achievements of PDP led regime, he said PDP led coalition
regime had carved out a path of peace and equitable development in
Jammu and Kashmir. He said that coalition regime had revived peoples'
faith in the democratic institutions. “Removing regional imbalance and
creating atmosphere for initiating peace process was the remarkable
achievement of PDP led coalition”, he observed.
Resorting peace and accelerating equitable development is the one and
only agenda of PDP, he said and asserted that during the PDP led
coalition regional imbalances were removed and equal treatment was
given to all regions and sub-regions.
Speaking on the occasion former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain
Beig said that before 2002 there were complaints of step motherly
treatment and discrimination with Jammu and Ladakh regions. "Our
government had initiated many steps to remove these discriminations.
In every sphere of life equal treatment is given to all regions of
State", he said and pointed out that Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh were
treated equally as far as opening of Universities, Colleges, schools
and developmental projects are concerned. "It is our achievement that
we successfully removed these discriminations", he asserted.
Calling upon the people to compare performance of PDP led regime with
the decades long mis-governance of successive National Conference led
regimes, he said that previous regime had provided good governance to
the people.
“As far as the performance of present alliance is concerned, it
appears only on papers and nothing concrete visible on ground”, he
said, adding, “for the last more than three years functioning of this
dispensation is appearing only on papers and at grassroots level not
even a single promise has been so far implemented”.
Trilok Singh Bajwa, Thakur Balbir Singh, Ved Mahajan, Hussain Ali
Wafa, Falail Singh, Capt Anil Gour, Suresh Sharma, Avtar Singh Khalsa,
Surinder Singh, Pawan Dev Singh, Abjeet Jasrotia, Gopal Dass, Suraj
Parkash, Sham Singh, Sehdev Singh, Darshanji, Puran Chand, Gurparshad
Verma, Shoukat Gujjar, Kamal kishore, Parveen Katal and others also
spoke on the occasion.
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