SRINAGAR: People Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti today said the party’s visionary political and economic agenda has made it to emerge as a genuine, strong and credible regional voice of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
She said if voted to power in 2014, PDP would work towards accomplishing its unfinished agenda of securing peace, stability and prosperity for Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing a PDP workers convention at Shopian today, Ms Mehbooba said when it took over in 2002, PDP-led Coalition Government, not only rekindled a new hope among the State’s distressed, agonised and traumatised masses, but it had also devised and started implementing focused developmental strategies for every area of the State.
‘After suffering decades of deprivation and neglect, for the first time all the regions and sub-regions of the State had started tasting development after 2002,’ she said and added that the signposts of the landmark developmental initiatives set off between 2002 and 2005 are visible in every nook and corner of the State.
She said immediately after taking over in 2002, while PDP-led coalition government’s foremost priority was to provide a sense of security to the people, the relaxation in the security environment was effectively supplemented with relief through development and economic rejuvenation.
She said if voted to power in 2014, PDP would work towards implementing its unaccomplished agenda of securing peace, stability and prosperity for Jammu & Kashmir.
‘PDP’s agenda is to ensure political, economic, and social security for the potentially gifted people of the State and we would realize this dream one day,’ she said and added that Jammu and Kashmir is not a place that needs packages and doles, it has to be given the freedom and assistance to realize its immense economic potential.
The PDP president said there are no limits to the State’s economic potential and in addition to its rich water and mineral resources, the brand name Kashmir has many dimensions be it tourism, art, handicrafts, forests or agricultural and horticultural products.
