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| Govt apathy to blame for panch killings: Mehbooba | | Visits Mir's family in Bomai | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Jan 12: Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President today visited Bomai, Spore to condole the death of Habibullah Mir Sarpanch of Goripora.
Accompanied by the local party leader Dr Shehzad Aasim she conveyed her sympathies and solidarity to the bereaved family. Mehbooba told the family and the people gathered there that innocent killings had no place in a civilized society and her party strongly condemned such incidents. She prayed for the peace of the departed soul and participated in Fatiha.
The PDP president said it was "unfortunate that the government had put the lives of elected members of village bodies in jeopardy through its selfish and narrow minded policies." She said the society that elected them would have been the strongest security for the panches and sarpanches "if the government had empowered them sufficiently to perform and bring benefits of panchayati raj to people."
"Instead of doing that the government used panchayat elections as a slogan of achievement and panches as audience for party functions. They also used them for the purpose of providing a few unemployed politicians jobs in the legislative council, promised them moon and abandoned them," she said.
Calling upon the government to come out with investigation reports of the half a dozen village representatives killed so far, Mehbooba said it is not enough for the chief minister to dub these killings as 'local conspiracies' and forget about them. She said if there were any conspiracies involved why doesn't government come out with full details? "The victims have been peace loving respected members of the society and the government cannot escape accountability for their killing if it is not able to unravel the perpetrators even after claiming that these were the result of conspiracies," she said. |
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