National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah on Thursday accused the PDP of consistent Uturns, broken promises and the summary betrayal of the 2014 mandate created widespread disillusionment and disenchantment in the Kashmir valley and led to an unprecedented deterioration of the situation as is being witnessed on Thursday.

Addressing a meeting of NC activists at Budgam, Omar said the people of the State witnessed destruction, disillusionment and alienation from the very day Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Mufti Muhammad Sayeed joined hands and formed an alliance that ridiculed the mandate and the aspirations of the people.

The situation in the state has deteriorated to an extent where educated youth, professors and children of serving police personnel are choosing the path of the gun despite opportunities of employment and education that they have.

This is a result of the PDP-BJP Government’s anti-youth policies and suppression of youth over the past three and a half years, Omar said.

“PDP sought votes in 2014 on a number of planks and promises – the foremost plank being that the party would keep BJP out of power in the State and safeguard the State’s political identity and interests. However, as soon as the election results were out, PDP embraced the BJP with the sole aim of coming to power.

“After deceiving the people and the mandate of those who had voted for PDP, the party perpetuated yet another grand fraud with the people by making political, economic and governance related promises in the ‘Agenda of the Alliance’ – a document which was later unequivocally disowned and ridiculed by the BJP. Not a single promise made in the ‘Agenda of the Alliance’ was fulfilled as Union Ministers in the Central Government openly ridiculed the document. Neither was a dialogue process initiated with Pakistan nor were talks started with the Hurriyat Conference.

The promise of seeking and achieving the return of power projects was shot down publicly by the Union power minister – and our CM chose to remain silent and didn’t utter a single word in protest.