Rajouri: Opposition Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday accused successive non-PDP governments in Jammu and Kashmir of exploiting people through emotional slogans and keeping them at the tail-end of development.
"The state had unfortunately been exploited previously on emotional slogans alone without keeping pace with requirements of development and growth that had hit the remote and the backward areas the hardest," PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said.
Areas like Poonch, Rajouri and the Chenab Valley had been kept at the tail end of development process deliberately and used only as a vote bank for decades, Mehbooba said.
By removing the fear of gun, official repression and restoring dignity of people the PDP had brought them into the state's mainstream and simultaneously opened new avenues of development, she said.
She alleged a political party that takes bribe from its own workers for cabinet berths and for mandates for MLA's and MLC's can never be trusted with any authority to enforce discipline among the administration that it heads.
Referring to the repeated compromises made by NC on the state's resources, powers and institutions, Mehbooba said the party had bartered away vital interests of the state for the frills and luxuries of power.
While it had gifted ten most feasible power projects to the NHPC just for their lust it was now for the people of state to gear up for correcting wrongs done to them, she said.
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