National Conference President and Member of Parliament from Srinagar Dr Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday felicitated the party’s winning candidates for their resounding victory in the District Development Council elections attributing the victory to the resilience of people of J&K. Lauding the resilience of party workers and party functionaries here at a felicitation function held at party headquarters, he said that thumping victory of the party’s DDC candidates bear out how widespread the roots of party are across Jammu and Kashmir. He said it was the ideological congruence with socio-political and economic emancipation of the poor at its core that helped the party to withstand the hostile and challenging times. The party, he said, has endured its character by working for the poor and destitute to iron out social and economic disparity in Kashmir by making recurring drastic and pro poor contributions in all areas from time to time. NC Vice President Omar Abdullah, General Secretary Haji Ali Muhammad Sagar, Provincial President Nasir Aslam Wani and others were present in the function. Farooq Abdullah said the people have done their bid and that now it was the turn of elected DDC members to pay off by rising up to the expectations of people with pure and simple service motive. “I am hopeful that the Party’s DDC members will devise an all inclusive strategy to serve people, address their concerns and become a voice for the voiceless. We in our party have always upheld that people are the real source of power; therefore it is more binding for our elected DDC members to keep in touch with their constituents,” he said. Extolling the functionaries and workers to heap on their public outreach Party President said that there was no scope for resting as the forthcoming days and months would be equally challenging. “We saw how brazenly the administration discriminated against our contesting candidates and created hurdles to impede our public outreach by flaunting all democratic norms. The anti democratic forces will again contrive to rein in and encumber our efforts underway for the restoration of people’s rights. We on our behalf have to strengthen our rows against their machination and face the challenges ahead of us resolutely,” he added. On the occasion Party leadership also felicitated Salman Ali Sagar for his victory in ULB by-polls of Sringar SMC.
