Attacking the National Conference (NC), the Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today said, drawing parallels between the two parties is "unfair" and a deliberate attempt to bail out the ruling party of six decades of misdeeds.
"It is not only unfair to club the party with NC, but part of a design to paint the entire mainstream black because of the present ruling dispensation's misdeeds," PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said while addressing a party workers' meet in the border town of Uri, 101 kms from here, on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Road.
"On no scale could PDP, the youngest party of the state, be compared with NC that has been in the driver's seat for over most part of the last century," she said adding, "speaking of PDP and NC in the same breath as objects of hate, is in fact an attempt by its apologists to bail out the ruling party of six decades of misdeeds and create an impression of non-availability of an alternative to it."
"How can our party, founded only 12 years back, be compared with NC that has been responsible for all major decisions since 1931, which mostly had a devastating effect on the state," Mehbooba asked.
During its brief tenure in the government, she said her party only brought relief and neutralised the negative impact of NC rule.
PDP does not live in the past, nor does it treat itself as at war with its political adversaries, she said.
"We only want to continue the unfinished agenda of bringing permanent peace to the state, lift the siege around it, restore its dignity that has been grossly undermined and create conditions, in which people can prosper," she said.
