We cant be browbeaten into silence, compromise:: PDP

Srinagar July 11: PDP has said its role as a responsible and responsive political party is governed by the historical necessities of Jammu and Kashmir and not any momentary considerations.
Responding to the current debate on the deteriorating human rights and law and order situation, a spokesman of the party said here today it was in fact a manifestation of the decade’s old problem that has bruised the soul and body of the state. The human and economic cost of the unresolved problem will only keep mounting unless it is resolved, the spokesman added.
The spokesman said the PDP has from day one of its formation constantly advocated that the problem needs to be resolved through genuine and bold action on diplomatic, political, constitutional and economic fronts. The party in fact was formed by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in preference of his much wider role on national level as the only regional force National Conference through its wrong policies had become ineffective in its carrying forward the mandate it had been constantly receiving he said and added it was inescapable to try and fill that political vacuum. National Conference, he said, had lost its appeal by confining itself to power politics which often came to it through compromises on the interests of state and PDP provided a credible alternative to it.
Although the PDP in its first outing in the electoral arena had got only a limited mandate but, the spokesman recalled, through its policies during the brief tenure of three years it had been able to set new standards of governance and political action which helped it emerge as a major political force with a clear cut ideology on state’s political problems and economic issues. “The party can neither be wished away from the political scene nor browbeaten into silence, collusion, or compromise through arm twisting, blackmail, insinuation or character assassination”, the spokesman said.
The spokesman said the people of the state and their interest was the only consideration for the party and it would continue to pursue its agenda with their help. Power, he said, was not the objective of the party and realizing its role on a much larger canvass of resolution it had accepted the results of the elections in spite of the reservations now being voiced all over the country which incidentally echoed the sentiment on the streets of Kashmir.
Expressing disgust at the government accusation of PDP being behind the current unrest and the threat of a police investigation, the spokesman said, such ridiculous statements only confirm how wrong the government was in its diagnosis of the problems it has landed itself and the people in and how difficult it would be to expect any relief from the present crisis. He said by leveling these false charges government was not only insulting the victims of its terror but also those who are raising their voice against it and braving police atrocities.
The spokesman said the government threat to launch police investigation against the main opposition party only endorsed the general impression that it was trying to convert the state police into the political tool of the National Conference. No wonder the police was found wanting in crime, prevention, investigation as well as crowd control for which it had now attracted criticism even from the central government .
While any independent probe was welcome, the spokesman reminded the ruling party that the state and the world had traveled miles since 1948 when radio sets would be arrested or political adversaries exiled to Pakistan. It would be much better for the chief minister to put his act together by “learning his lessons” faster instead of behaving like the proverbial bad workman quarreling with his tools, the spokesman added.