Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar : National Conference on Sunday said PDP’s declaration that Kashmir was not a political issue but a social issue was a shocking and shameful U-turn by the Party which, for years, sought support and votes primarily to help in the resolution of the political issue that has claimed thousands of lives and pushed the State into the throes of instability and suffering.
Addressing a Press Conference at NC Headquarters ‘Nawa-e-Subha’ in Srinagar on Sunday, NC General Secretary Haji Ali Muhammad Sagar, who was flanked by NC Provincial President Nasir Aslam Wani and State Spokesperson Junaid Mattu, lashed out at Chief Minister and PDP President Mehbooba Mufti and her party for their total sell-out and said this recent outrageous statement is the last nail in the coffin for PDP.
The NC General Secretary said PDP Leader and Finance Minister Dr. Haseeb Drabu’s declaration that Kashmir was apparently not a ‘political issue’ but a ‘social issue’ while speaking at an event in Delhi was a serious development that called into question the very basis of PDP’s political over the years and the promises it had been making to the people of the State.
The NC General Secretary asked Chief Minister and PDP President Mehbooba Mufti to clarify if this was the final and formal abandonment of the party’s ‘Self Rule’ document which till now was being portrayed as the party’s supreme vision document.
“First the PDP violated the mandate of 2014 by entering into an opportunistic alliance with a party it had sought votes against and today the same party finally lets the cat out of the bag by declaring everything it stood for till now was apparently akin to ‘barking up the wrong tree’ as said by Dr. Haseeb Drabu.
