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On one-party rule, PDP leader Bukhari goes with Omar


Date:- 09 Jan 2019


Seemingly warming up to the National Conference, senior PDP leader Altaf Bukhari on Tuesday seconded Omar Abdullah saying “single-party rule is beneficial for J&K.”

On the other hand, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, in a series of tweets, spoke about the coalition governments and how they had benefitted the state. The debate on the issue was triggered when NC vice-president Omar Abdullah on Monday called for a decisive mandate in the upcoming Assembly elections for return of a single-party government in the state.

“I personally believe that Kashmir has suffered a lot because of coalition politics that started since 2002. The results of the upcoming Assembly elections shall have a huge bearing on the stability and all-round development of the state,” Bukhari said in a statement. Incidentally, Bukhari did not ask people to vote for the PDP.

“I leave it to the conscience of people to choose and vote for any political party of their choice that can safeguard the state’s socio-political interests and deliver the best,” he said. “I appeal to people of the state to make their mind for supporting any party that they deem will usher a change and address their socio-political aspirations.” The former Finance Minister said it was his personal experience that coalition governments were actually less democratic as the balance of power was inevitably held by the small parties. Referring to the bitter experiments of 2002 (PDP-Congress), 2008 (NC-Congress) and 2015 (PDP-BJP) in Jammu and Kashmir, Bukhari observed that people suffered immensely due to coalition compulsions.

However, Mehbooba talked about the benefits of coalition governments in a series of tweets. “The brute majority has had a history of sell-outs in J&K. With 60 members, the NC sold out power houses, brought Ikhwan, task force and the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Even earlier when the NC had the absolute majority and unqualified political mandate, it only yielded power, resources of the state to the Centre,” she tweeted.

“On the contrary Mufti saheb’s coalition established a high bar of achievements and opening of cross-Line of Control roads — a singular political achievement post-Independence,” she wrote in another tweet. Mehbooba said at the national-level coalition governments had delivered better. The PDP, however, distanced itself from Bukhari's statement saying it was his personal opinion and not the party’s position on the issue.

Meanwhile, senior journalist and former media adviser to the J&K Government Suhail Bukhari on Tuesday joined the PDP. — TNS

Courtesy:The Tribune,Jan09,2019