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| Ask PDP to quit coalition, threaten to launch agitation | | Centre's fresh package for flood-hit 'humiliating', say Valley traders | | Javaid Naikoo
Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 17: Expressing dismay over the alleged indifference displayed by the Centre towards flood-affected people of Kashmir, traders fraternity and civil society on Wednesday asked the PDP to withdraw from the coalition with BJP.
In a joint press conference here, the civil society and traders termed the relief-cum-rehabilitation package of Rs 1600 crore released by the Centre on Tuesday as humiliating and shocking and threatened to launch an agitation to get back power projects from the NHPC to meet the economic crises of state.
Chairman, Kashmir Economic Alliance, Muhammad Yasin Khan said, "We are stakeholders as being tax payers to state, so government is bound to rehabilitate us." He termed the package announced by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley as humiliating and asked the PDP patron and Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to quit the coalition with BJP on moral grounds and join the people of Kashmir.
Civil society member and businessman, Shakeel Qalandar while rejecting the Centre's fresh package said that tall claims of Government of India to help Kashmiris have fallen flat. "When the Union government can give compensation to people in Uttrakhand where natural disaster struck two years ago, why is same standard not be followed in case of Kashmir?"
"Rs 7 lakh have been paid to every household in Uttrakhand and here government is giving only Rs 1.5 lakh. The previous government had demanded Rs 9 lakh per household which got fully damaged in floods and waive off in loans, but nothing has been given so far. The Union government claims that it paid Rs 1602 crore through NDRF to J&K, but state government only received Rs 1100 crore. The rest amount of Rs 502 crore was paid for helicopter sorties in which TV crews were on-board," Qalandar said.
Figures given by Jaitley, according to Qalandar, are misleading, as the Union government has included the money given under former PM Manmohan Singh's 'Prime Minister's Reconstruction Programme.'
Qalandar said, "NHPC is an illegal and unconstitutional occupier of power projects of J&K and it has no right to operate from the state. Let NHPC return our power projects, we will rehabilitate people on our own as state can generate an economy of Rs 6000 crore annually through these projects."
The traders and civil members threatened that they will launch an agitation against NHPC and throw it out of the state. |
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