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| PDP condemns use of force on Muharram mourners | | | Early Times Reports
srinagar, Nov 15: Condemning the use of force on Ashura mourners around residency road today Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said the government not spared even a supremely religious and emotional occasion like this.
In a statement released here today the party president Mehbooba Mufti said the muzzling of dissent on political and administrative fronts has becoming a hallmark of present government but the fact that it used its favorite methods of teargas and lathi charge to prevent a religious procession in an index of its complete bankruptcy. She also criticized the government for detaining a prominent religious leader and his supporters for trying to organize a purely non political and religious gathering.
Mehbooba said the government is paranoid about any kind of public gathering and is feeling insecure to perform in a democratic manner that is why she said, the present government is on a war path with every section of the society.
She said use of brute force has become a preferred weapon of NC-led government to silence not only its opponents but even the commoners are not being spared and muzzle the voices of dissent against its repression, misrule and corruption. Mehbooba said it is time that the administration reviewed the three decade old ban on Muharram processions on their traditional routes. She said the ban must go once for all and mourners should be allowed to use their traditional routes as has been the practice for decades before the ban was enforced. |
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