PDP senior Vice-President Moulvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari Friday said that National Conference sold the very soul of the State by gifting water resources to the NHPC.Addressing addressing a series of election meetings in Zadibal and Kangan Assembly segments of Srinagar Parliamentary constituency, Ansari said that as a partner of the coalition government with Congress, PDP had pursued the goals and objectives set in the common minimum program for finding a peaceful resolution to the problems of the State, rolling back of the draconian laws and pursuing a healing touch policy in its dealings with the people. He said unfortunately, the National Conference has played the most intriguing role at the crucial phases of the State’s history to sabotage any solution to the problem.
“As NC never believes in democracy and people’s verdict and has always resorted to manipulative and exploitative tactics to grab power, it is once again trying to take recourse to same tactics to tear down the democratic institutions in the State,” he said. “NC sold the very soul of the State by gifting water resources to the NHPC, which generated billions from it and J&K having steeped into perpetual darkness as a result”, Ansari said and added that Omar Abdullah had gone a step ahead of his father in handing over the fully operational Baghliar power project to NHPC within the first two months of assuming office.He said earlier Dr Farooq Abdullah had gifted seven power projects to NHPC in 2000 to please his BJP friends in NDA Government. He urged people to vote and support Tariq Hameed Karra, PDP candidate for Srinagar-Budgam Parliamentary constituency to send a strong representative voice to the Parliament.