Former Chief Ministers Dr Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti were on Saturday unanimously chosen as the chairman and and Deputy chairperson respectively of the recently floated Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD).
The Communist Party of India (M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami will be the covenor while Peoples Conference (PC) chairman Sajjad Gani Lone Spokesperson of the PAGD which met here this afternoon at the residence of Mehbooba.
The PAGD leaders adopted the flag of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir as its symbol, Sajjad Gani Lone told reporters after the meeting.
He said the alliance will come out with a white paper within a month on governance in Jammu and Kashmir over the past one year since the abrogation of Article 370. “The white paper will not be rhetoric”, he said adding it will be based on facts and figures to present the reality to the people of Jammu and Kashmir and around the country. This, he said, was necessary as an impression is being created that all the corruption had happened in Jammu and Kashmir only.
He announced that the alliance also decided to hold its next meeting after a fortnight in Jammu, followed by a convention in Srinagar on November 17.