PDP attempts inroads in Jammu with eyes on majority in JK

In its attempt to clinch majority in the 87-member Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, Opposition Peoples Democratic Party is trying to make inroads in Jammu by raking up "regional discrimination" and secularism card to woo the Hindu voters of the region.
On the campaign trail, PDP's top leadership-- former Chief Minister and party patron Mufti Mohammed Sayeed and the sitting party MP from Baramulla Muzaffar Hussain Baig-- not only tried to strike a chord with the people of the region by flagging "discrimination" issue but also promised Jammu its due once they return to power on their own in the state.

PDP leaders are reaching out to the people of Jammu region by meeting traders, sections of various sects and society to garner support in its intensified bid to convince Hindu voters and increase its political and electoral turf in the state.
Mufti flanked by Beigh today launched his party's campaign for Nagrota Assembly constituency, which was vacated by BJP state president, Jugal Kishore after being elected as MP from Jammu parliament seat.
Regional discrimination with the Hindu majority Jammu region has always remained a major poll plank in the state. The Hindu dominated region has always accused Kashmir-based leadership of regional bias.

"Jammu is an example of secularism as the people of the region not only gave shelter to the Kashmiri Pandit community when they migrated, but also the people here gave shelter to a large number of nationalist Kashmiri Muslims who fled Kashmir when the turmoil started," Sayeed told party workers in Nagrota.