Committed to political resolution: Mehbooba

JAMMU:Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today said the PDP has been able to inspire confidence among a majority of the people in all regions of the state, about its ability to solve multiple problems being faced by Jammu and Kashmir on political, economic, administrative and financial fronts.

Mehbooba Mufti reviews the progress of development projects at a meeting in Jammu on Tuesday. A Tribune Photo

Tribune News Service

Jammu, August 23

Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today said the PDP has been able to inspire confidence among a majority of the people in all regions of the state, about its ability to solve multiple problems being faced by Jammu and Kashmir on political, economic, administrative and financial fronts.

Addressing a meeting of prominent leaders, office-bearers, and party cadre here today, she said the party would carry forward its agenda of political resolution, economic empowerment, good governance and employment generation and convert Jammu and Kashmir into a real welfare state.

She said this had been reiterated in the party’s “Agenda of Alliance” with the BJP.

Mehbooba, who is also the PDP president, said political subversion and uncertainty that the state had faced in the past seven decades had already taken a heavy toll on the state, its economy and human resources. The attempts being made by some quarters to squeeze the space for its residents would have to be met with maturity, wisdom, collective action and democratic assertion of rights, she said.

She asked PDP cadres to reach out to all sections of society to confront the emerging challenges posed by the different divisive and subversive forces in the state. “There are forces active on the ground with dangerous agenda to divide the people in the name of religion and region and their every attempt has to be defeated,” she said while seeking people’s cooperation in maintaining calm so that developmental initiatives could take shape.

Reiterating her resolve to establish a new system of justice and equality, Mehbooba said the aim of her party was to script a new chapter in the political history of J&K by removing trust deficit among different regions. “The PDP is a cementing force to unite all regions and sub-regions of the state,” she said, adding that the PDP, unlike other parties, had never indulged in doublespeak.

“Earning faith and trust of the people of J&K is the biggest achievement of the party,” she said, adding that the PDP cadres should take the party’s message of peace, harmony and stability to the grassroots level.