"The National Conference and Congress will face even worse defeat than they did in the Lok Sabha elections but the imminent change can become more purposeful and productive if the PDP is given a clear mandate in the Assembly elections," PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said during a public rally in Inderwal belt of Kishtwar district.
Mehbooba said preference of the people who had voted in the Lok Sabha polls for change at the national level will now be revolving "only around the PDP".
Claiming that National Conference and Congress do not have any achievement to show of their governance, Mehbooba said people's anger against the two parties has reached its peak and will result in a worse punishment to them than they had tasted during the Lok Sabha elections.
Mehbooba said Chenab Valley in spite of being a natural resource-rich region has been "pushed into deprivation, poverty and backwardness".
She further alleged that 500 youth were rendered jobless after Rattle Power Project was asked to stop work and said it was a "direct result of harassment caused by the NC and Congress leaders to the project authorities".
She claimed bad road connectivity was a major cause of concern in the entire region and PDP if voted to form the government will seriously address this issue.
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