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| Mehbooba accuses Omar of rubbing salt on injuries of people | | | early times report
SRINAGAR, Dec 23: Accusing Chief Minister Omar Abdullah of rubbing salt on injuries of masses, peoples Democratic party (PDP) supreme Ms Mehbooba Mufti today termed his admission of "mistakes" in handling 2010 disturbances in Kashmir as meaningless.
Addressing a group of people including intellectuals ex-servicemen and youth from border area of Gurez who joined the party today, the PDP chief said Chief Minister seems to have learnt no lessons from the debacle that cost more than 120 innocent people their lives.
Mehbooba said Chief Minister's advice to the Central Government on handling the current situation that has arisen in the wake of the unfortunate gang rape of a young women amounts to rubbing salt into the wounds of his own people. She reminded him the situation of 2010 saying the situation in 2010 was also triggered by a single unfortunate incident of police excess that resulted in the death of a young boy Tufail Matoo.
"What followed was an expression of outrage and anger as is witnessed currently throughout the country against atrocities committed on 23 year old girl in New Delhi, she said, adding but the responses to the two situations have been entirely different forcing the people to conclude that different yard sticks are applied to them which are neither judicious nor democratic",.
Condemning strongly the gang rape of the para medic woman in Delhi where the women folk are feeling increasingly insecure, Mehbooba recalled how a similar incident involving two women in Shopian had been conducted differently. She said even before an inquiry was held the Chief Minister declared that they had drowned in a river that hardly had any water and then managed a cover up that has become too familiar for Jammu & Kashmir. Those unfortunate women were denied justice and such insensitive response has resulted in continued alienation of people in Jammu & Kashmir, she added.
The PDP chief said as the Chief Minister has accepted his "mistakes" will he withdraw cases against thousands of young people who have been framed under serious charges?. She said the Chief Minister had made announcements at least on three occasions, the last on February 25 this year that cases of stone pelting etc had been withdrawn but it has turned out to be another hoax. "The lie about withdrawal of cases has finally been nailed with the arrest of Zahida of Anantnag, a girl who lost her leg as a result of police firing and arrested on charges of stone pelting".she added,.
Mehbooba said it looks that the Coalition Government in J&K is squeezing the space for expression for youth within democratic system with the objective of pushing them to extreme methods. This was evident from the recent revelations that the body from Sopore who was killed in an encounter had been forced to pick up the gun as a result of his torture in the wake of 2010 agitation, even though he was not involved in any crime and was pursuing his studies. |
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