India, Pak should find peaceful K-solution: Baig
Accuses Hurriyat, NC leaders of exploiting people
Mir Tariq Bandipora, June 10: The deputy chief minister, Muzaffar Hussain Baig on Tuesday asserted that India and Pakistan should find peaceful solution to Kashmir issue in line with the wishes of people of the State.He also accused the Hurriyat and NC leaders of exploiting the people of the State.
Addressing a public rally during rising day ceremony of Gujjar Welfare Forum (GWF), here on Tuesday, Beigh said, “PDP has always been in favour of developed India and Pakistan. India and Pakistan should find peaceful solution to the Kashmir problem. The solution should be according to the wishes of people of the State”.He claimed that India and Pakistan were near to resolve the Kashmir problem in last months but due to the internal strife in Pakistan, the talks process slowed down. “Now that democratically elected government has assumed office in Pakistan, the dialogue process between the two countries will resume and Kashmir will be discussed prominently,” he said.Beigh said, “PDP has always been demanding that any Kashmir solution should be according to the interests of Kashmiris”.Attacking Hurriyat conference and NC leadership, Beigh said, “The Huriyat and NC leaders are living luxurious lives. Their near and dear ones are enjoying lives in foreign countries while poor people are made to suffer. The kith and kin of the NC and Huriyat leaders are doing business in foreign countries while the common people are denied employment avenues”. Beigh asserted that the gun culture should be eliminated from the Bandipora, which has faced lot of problems due to gun. "People can eliminate the gun culture from the society where everything is being practiced in the shadow of gun. People should come forward and wipe out the gun culture from the society, which has engulfed the Bandipora from decades,” he said, adding, “People in general and youth in particular have immensely suffered because of the continuing conflict”. The deputy chief minister said, “What the previous regimes failed to achieve in 50 years, PDP achieved in three years of rule. During the reign of Sheikh Abdullah, Farooq Abdullah, G M Sadiq, Ghulam Mohammad Shah, Jammu and Kashmir got only two universities, but during its three year’s rule PDP established two universities and few campuses in the state”.He further said, “The past regimes constructed only few primary and middle schools while PDP during its three years rule constructed and upgraded hundreds of schools and colleges”.Beigh admitted the Bandipora is still lagging behind in the developmental works. “Lot of work still needs to be done,” he said.Responding to the problems of the Gujjars, Beigh said Rs 2 crores will be provided from the current year plan for the electrification of Gujjar inhabited villages like Kudara, Chandaji, Vewan, and Athwatoo."Construction of roads will also be taken up and the funds will be provided for it separately. All the roads like Aragam, Chandji and Kudara will be constructed after framing a proper plan,” he said.PDP General Secretary Advocate Nizamudin Baht, Advovcte Adul Haq Khan, Javaid Ahmed Larvi, patron youth PDP Bandipora, Altaf Bedaar and chairman GWF Khadim Hussein Shabnam also spoke on the occasion.