Ansari stays adamant, uncle says Naeem, Mansoor damaging party

TNN Bureau. Updated: 2/21/2017 9:20:39 AM Front Page

SHABIR AHMAD

SRINAGAR: Accusing Naeem Akhtar and Peerzada Mansoor Hussain of ruining the Peoples Democratic Party, MLA from Zadibal, Srinagar, Abid Ansari and uncle of Minister Imran Raza Ansari on Monday said that unfilled promises forced his nephew Imran to resign.
Ministers Imran Ansari and Basharat Bukhari resigned from as the former did not get the portfolio he had been promised and the latter was stripped off an important portfolio when revenue, relief and rehabilitation was taken away from him.
“He was assured by the Chief Minister that his portfolio will bechanged as he had expressed his dissatisfaction soon after formationof the government,” Abid Ansari told The News Now.
However, the MLA from Zadibal, Srinagar said that he and Imran will remain with the party and will make it stronger.
“We will work hard for the implementation of the vision of the party and as framed by late Mufti Muhammad Sayeed,” he said. Abid said that Naeem Akhtar and Peerzada Mansoor are responsible for the mess in the party. “They are ruining the party,” he said and added that the only way to save the party is to cut these two leaders to size.
The Shia leader also accused Peerzada Mansoor of being a “black-mailer”.
“If PDP gets decimated in coming Parliament and next Assembly elections, the reason will be Peerzada Mansoor Hussain, who is a ‘black-mailer’, ‘back biter’, and ‘a BJP man,” he said.
“Naeem Akhtar and Peerzada Mansoor are calling the shots in the party and it is because of these two that Imran Raza Ansari was not given the promised portfolio. Both these men can’t compete with Imran Raza
Ansari who has a great stature. These men will feel the heat when Srinagar will go for Lok Sabha bypolls,” he added. The PDP legislator said that Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti feels that Naeem Akhtar and Peerzada Mansoor are assets to the party. “We have time and again informed her about the anti-party activities of these two persons,” he said while adding that time will come soon when she will realize this and show the door to them. Ansari further said that Akhtar never supported or assisted any party legislator or worker and he spends most of his time with non-party men. “He remains surrounded by sycophants and is mostly busy in
appeasing BJP men,” said Abid while alleging that Akhtar has never
solved any problem of a PDP worker.


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