People can change J-K's destiny in next Assembly polls: PDP

Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron Mufti Mohamamd Sayeed today said next year's Assembly elections will offer people of Jammu and Kashmir a chance to change the state's destiny.
"PDP believes it could change the destiny of the state through a genuine democratic process and we could benefit from our constitutional system in restoring our rights and scripting a new future.
"For that, the coming elections will offer people a defining moment in its history," Sayeed said addressing a public gathering at Deethu in the Shangus constituency of Anantnag district in south Kashmir.
The former Chief Minister said, resolution of Kashmir problem remains the centrepiece of PDP's political process though there was dire need for pursuing a vibrant economic agenda which should focus on challenges like unemployment, power crisis, unplanned and haphazard development and ecological degeneration.

"While I value victory in elections as public endorsement of our programme, it is the faith and confidence reposed by people in our agenda that would actually empower us in tackling the challenges we face," he said.
During its brief rule in alliance with Congress, PDP had set "new standards" of governance, development and political accommodation, Sayeed said.