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“Clear mandate must for PDP for stability”

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“Transformed the state”: People’s Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti addressing a public rally at Natipora district in Srinagar on Friday.

Srinagar: People’s Democratic Party (PDP), a ruling ally in Jammu and Kashmir, on Friday said the State’s march towards political stability and economic prosperity would regain momentum only if the party gets a clear mandate in the next Assembly elections.

“Our march towards political stability and economic prosperity, which started under the leadership of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in 2002, would regain momentum only if PDP gets a clear mandate in the upcoming Assembly elections,” party president Mehbooba Mufti told a public meeting at Natipora in Amirakadal constituency here.

Claiming that the party had transformed the State’s political and economic scenario by sticking to its pro-people agenda, she said despite pulls and pressures of a coalition, the PDP has stuck to its stand of upholding the honour and dignity of the people of the State.

She also said that the party’s persistent struggle for bringing the interests of the people to the centre-stage of the sub-continent’s “political dynamics” in which party stalwart Mufti Mohammad Sayeed played a crucial role, had altered the way both Delhi and Islamabad looked upon Jammu and Kashmir.

Whether it was reopening of Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road, construction of Mughal road, or extension of mobile facility to the State, the PDP did it all against forces determined to thwart these moves, she said. -- PTI

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