Baramulla, June 18: Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday stressed coordination and synergy among party workers, saying it is important to have strong coordination among the leaders, workers and work in tandem to yield positive results.
Addressing a meeting of office bearers in Baramulla, Azad lamented over the “poor governance and development” in this north Kashmir district. “There seems a complete governance and development deficit in the district. Baramulla is one of the oldest districts of Jammu and Kashmir, but it has been overlooked and ignored by all successive regimes,” he said.
The DPAP chairman said it was his government when the Government Medical College was sanctioned. Azad said if he is back to power in the coming elections, he will usher the district into a new dawn of socioeconomic development.
“I will finish this gap and ensure the township is restored back to its pristine glory. I am not happy to see it in this situation where you are greeted on roads with potholes, narrow roads, chaos and mismanagement,” he said. Azad, however, stressed that it is the duty of his party leaders, and workers to reach out to the people with the party agenda and ensure more and more people are joining us and becoming part of change.
Meanwhile, a meeting of DPAP workers was held in Mangit, Banihal on Sunday where hundreds of its workers participated, the statement said.
Speaking on the occasion, the party’s vice chairman G M Saroori said, “It was due to former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad that Banihal got many projects approved in the past of public importance. We are hopeful of seeing the constituency developed on modern lines if Mr Azad is back to power with the majority. So we have to ensure DPAP is emerging as one of the largest political parties in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections. We have to work for that and ensure more and more people are joining it.”
DPAP chief spokesperson Salman Nizami said, “If DPAP comes to power, Mahu Mangit will get tehsil status, and the party will connect Mangit road with Khari and Banihal.” He also promised a stadium, a tourism development authority and a degree college to Mahu Mangit.
