Addressing public meetings at Khonmoh, Balhama and road shows on the 5-km stretch from Gagribal to Buchwara in Sonwar assembly constituency, Abdullah said: “I took up the issue of opening of roads India and Pakistan and between two parts of the divides Kashmir. I also helped bring India and Pakistan closer.”
He said only NC could bring the leadership of India and Pakistan closer and assist both in creating a congenial atmosphere for better bilateral relationship.
Expressing happiness over peace on borders, Abdullah said: “I hope peace continues to prevail so that people on both sides flourish and prosper.”
He said his party played a pivotal role in fostering better relations between New Delhi and Islamabad and would continue to do so in future in the interest of the two countries and for the welfare of the people of Jammu Kashmir.
Abdullah said that during the recent All Parties Meeting at New Delhi, he pleaded for accelerating the dialogue process and forbade India against a war with Pakistan, which political parties like the pro-Hindutva Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) were favouring.
“I stressed that dialogue is the only process which can facilitate return of peace in the subcontinent,” Abdullah said.
Asserting that cordial bilateral relations between New Delhi and Islamabad were the basic essence for lasting peace in the subcontinent Abdullah said peace in subcontinent is not possible until relations between India and Pakistan are strengthened and developed.
He said both India and Pakistan should work for creating an atmosphere of understanding and confidence among each other so that both countries and the State flourish.
He said people of Jammu Kashmir want peace and it was only possible when the mistrust between the two counties was removed and cordial relations strengthened.
Coming down heavily on PDP for ignoring the general plight of the people of the State and bringing destruction and bloodshed to the peaceful state, Abdullah said Mufti Muhammad Sayeed's anti-people polices had added miseries to the people of the state. “They (PDP) indulged in divisive politics and tried to divide the people of the state on regional, religious, caste and ethnic basis for vote bank politics thereby destroying the traditional secular fabric of the State,” he said.
The NC patron said PDP's ministers during six years of coalition rule swindled public money through all the wrong means and methods and built their own houses and bartered the interests of common people for their personal interests.
Abdullah said PDP-Congress coalition government swindled away huge financial grants received form the Government of India for reviving the economy and providing basic amenities to the people of the State.
Abdullah said if voted to power NC would probe all embezzlements and wrongdoing of the coalition ministers.
"Fortunately now people of Jammu Kashmir have seen through their manipulative, self-centered politics and would defeat PDP and remove it form the political landscape of the state," Abdullah said.
He said: “If voted to power, NC will take the State out from the morass created by the PDP-Congress coalition during their six years of unfortunate rule.”
He said that the "vision" which the party had outlined for the people of the State which is a roadmap for development would be implemented in letter and spirit and added that the roadmap was backed by a competent delivery mechanism.
Abdullah said, immediately after coming to power, NC would come out with a special package for employment of youth and open new avenues for young unemployed and ensure that every household of the State has at least one earning hand.
He also promised that NC government would provide stipend to the unemployed till they are suitably employed and lower the cost of LPG cylinder by Rs 50 and lower electricity. “Besides the cost of essential commodities would be reduced by 25 to 30 per cent,” Abdullah said.
Abdullah was accompanied by senior NC leader Mehboob Beg, Chaudhary Muhammad Ramzan, Mir Saifullah, Muhammad Yaseen Shah, Aga Sayeed Rahoola and Shehnaz Ganai.