Darakhshan welcomes new entrants into SDP

THe State Times

Jammu, 23.11.2010

Scores of senior political workers, delegates and organizational in-charges of Kathua district from different political parties joined Socialistic Democratic Party today at a brief function held at Press Club Jammu. Motivated by SDP leader Kamal Chand, more than seventy new political volunteers became the part of the nationalist mission called SDP. These new entrants into the party hailing from Congress, BJP, Panthers Party, BSP, PDP and National Conference were greeted by SDP president Dr Darakhshan Andrabi into the party. She addressed the gathering and the media on the event. Dr Darakhshan said that she is feeling more and more powerful day by day when more and more dedicated people of the state are joining Socialistic Democratic Party. Dr Darakhshan said that these political representatives hail from a district which has been ignored by the government in all developmental works. She said that during her recent visits to different far flung areas of the district, she was shocked to see the apathy of the government towards these people. She said that this area needs an honest political patronage to help the people in improving their life standard and help them resolve their problems for their survival. Dr Andrabi said that it was unfortunate to see the Rajshahi approach of our political representatives, rulers and bureaucrats. She said that all these are public servants and need to inculcate in them the habit of sacrifice and service rather than nourish selfishness and arrogance. Dr Andrabi called upon educated youth of the state to come forward and take part in politics so that our rotten and ill political order gets substituted by new vision of public service and national dignity and the state and the country gets a potent leadership. Dr Darakhshan Andrabi welcomed the decision of exclusion of J&K issue from the United Nations list of International Disputes. She said that it was impossible to reverse the time and history and the advocates of the so-called issue are living in fool’s paradise. She said that the so-called J&K issue has become a big market and many people are earning enormously out of it. She said that some mainstream parties and leaders are also using this baseless issue for their petty political gains and the common ignorant people have to pay the price with their lives and property. Dr Darakhshan Andrabi said that these politicians of opportunitism are responsible for exploitation of the sentiments of the people and for creation of violence – guided situations that make the life of a common man a hell. She appealed to the intelligentsia and the media to come forward and inform people about the realities so that they do not fell prey to the sinister designs of politicians. She also appealed to the youth of Kashmir to understand the reality and desist from becoming the tools of the politics of evil designs. Dr Darakhshan Andrabi said that her party will like to contest Panchayti elections but she appealed to Central Government to make it clear on the state administration that the elections will be fair and no official machinery will be used by the government to influence these elections as has been the practice in the state. She said that if the ruling party tried to rig the elections or use official machinery for the elections, we will go for a massive agitation. She said that she was apprehensive of this all because the present political order has nourished a gunda-culture in the state on which it exists. The prominent among those who joined SDP on spot were Babinder Chowdhry, Pankaj Sharma, ramesh Sambyal,Raj Chowdhry, mohan Sharma, Sanjeev Gupta, rajan Sharma, Rakesh Gupta, Talib Hussain, Kuldeep Singh, Lekh Raj, Amar Singh, Madan Lal and others.