PEOPLE LOOKING FOR A BETTER ALTERNATIVE: MUZZAFAR SHAH

Jammu: Asserting that people were eagerly looking forward to an honest and accountable alternative to the present government, Jammu Kashmir Awami National Conference Vice-President, Muzaffar Shah, Thursday said people alone could bring about the desired change. He reaffirmed his party’s commitment to provide a clean administration to the people without compromising on people’s rights.
Addressing a day-long convention of workers organized as part of the party’s mass contact program on Thursday, he said that according to him people were fed up with coalition government which, over the years, had brought the state to a veritable precipice. Because of this, he said, the people were seeing a distinct possibility of an honest political alternative to come into being to relieve them of their miseries and distress.
Shah said the coalition partners, National Conference and Congress, because of their inherent ideological differences were engaged in outsmarting each other instead of addressing the manifold hardships the people face.
“On the one hand, people are grieving over the death of hundreds of infants at Kashmir’s premier pediatric healthcare facility, the G B Pant Hospital, and on the other the coalition partners spare no effort to criticize and blame each other for the prevailing mess while the opposition Peoples Democratic Party is deriving vicarious pleasure out of it,” he said.
Shah said that people were thoroughly disenchanted with the coalition dispensations whether at the centre or in Jammu and Kashmir, be it the incumbent NC-Congress government or its predecessor PDP-Congress government, both failed on all the fronts of governance. “The coalition rule in Jammu and Kashmir has emerged as the biggest cancerous liability for the state,” he said.
The incumbent coalition government, Shah said, was churning out exaggerated and false claims about its three-year performance only to hoodwink the unsuspecting people of the state. “There has been no progress on the political and economic fronts over these years and the state is passing through the conditions similar to those three years ago with the callous government unleashing excesses on job-seeking educated youth; protests over power shortage and demands of employees are ignored with gay abandon”, Shah said.