Omar using militancy as shield to hide his govt's failures:PDP

Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has flayed Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, saying "he (Omar) is using militancy as shield to hide his failures and inefficiency."
"There is no denying the fact that post 1990 turmoil has cost the state dearly in terms of human and economic lost, but National Conference has no moral authority to use it as a shield for hiding its failures and sell-outs," PDP President Mehbooba Mufti said addressing party workers at Dangerpora in Sopore, 55 kms from here, in north Kashmir yesterday.
On December 12, Omar had said Jammu and Kashmir lagged behind other states in terms of development due to eruption of militancy more than 20 years ago.

"Our development remained stand still while other states went much ahead on road to progress during the period of militancy which gripped the State for over 20 years," Omar had said at a public meeting at Lalpora in Kupwara district.
Mehbooba said it was primarily because of the rigging resorted to by the National Conference led coalition in 1987 that forced the youth of Jammu and Kashmir to pickup guns for "securing their rights".
"This has been acknowledged even by the top militant leaders like (Hizbul Mujahideen supremo) Syed Salah-u-Din, who himself was a candidate in the assembly elections, but was defeated through brazen rigging," she claimed.

The PDP president said in order to hide his "failures" on all fronts, the Chief Minister is "inventing an alibi everyday and has now shifted the blame for corruption and mis-governance to militancy, even though in 2009, he himself acknowledged that the state was now peaceful and ready for progress".
"But at the end of his tenure now, he has nothing to show by way of his performance, but corruption, power crisis, mis-governance, nepotism, backdoor appointments, drug scam, examination scandal, BOPEE scam and cricket scam stand out his (Abdullah's) major achievements," she said.