STATE TIMES NEWS
SOPORE: President Jammu Kashmir Bachao Tehreek and former Minister, Abdul Gani Vakil on Tuesday said dynasty politics propagated and promoted by National Conference and PDP are the mothers of all ills including unprecedented delay in resolution of Kashmir Issue, erosion of State autonomy and political exploitation on ‘Self Rule and Autonomy’ slogan.
While addressing convention here, Vakil dared Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti to break her silence on her party’s demand for Self Rule and demilitarisation and asked her to stop political exploitation of people by talking about Confidence Building Measures (CBMs).
Asking Mehbooba Mufti that how she can get her party’s demand for ‘Self Rule’ conceded when her party has failed to get even a single power project from the Centre, Vakil regretted that Mehbooba Mufti could not get even pellet guns banned by the Central Government run by BJP at the Centre.
Launching a scathing attack on National Conference President and former Chief Minister, Farooq Abdullah, Vakil asked Abdullah to explain why he is crying over autonomy this time when National Conference is out of power and why he does not talk about late Sheikh Abdullah’s statement in the Assembly in which he said “Article 370 is not sacrosanct, and it can be scrapped.”
Vakil asked Farooq Abdullah to recall and recount the role of his father in passing the Land Grants Bill. He alleged that National Conference is the architect of Public Safety Act (PSA) under which even innocents are jailed for years together without trial.
Reacting on the appointment of Mehbooba Mufti as PDP President, Vakil said it was better for PDP to appoint Mehbooba Mufti as Party President for life time and same should have been done by NC as well as it has been seen all along that there is no chance to any leader outside Abdullah’s and Mufti’s families to take over as president of their parties even if he is capable and embodiment of sacrifice.
Vakil asked “What is the fault of Muzzafar Hussain Beigh, Mohammad Shafi Uri and late Ghulam Nabi Kochak even senior most leaders in their respective parties could not get a chance to achieve the top post of the Party.” Dynasty rule is the second name of dictatorship, lets all be united to put an end to family rule because of which genuine and capable leadership in this rule gets pushed back due to lack of democracy, Vakil added
Vakil also said he was not surprised over Omar Abdullah congratulating Mehbooba Mufti to become President as there has been all along commonality of National Conference and PDP to strengthen dynasty politics and to safe guard each others interests especially on corruption.
General Secretary JKBT, Syed Tehreek, Ex MLC Syed Rafiq Shah, Youth Secretary, Rizwan Illahi, Secretary Advocate Syed Gowhar, Moulvi Zahoor Ahmad, Haji Mohammad Afzal Khan and Ghulam Ahmad Shagoo were also present.