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| Crackdown on youth in Srinagar,Baramulla may prove counter productive | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 27 : Following displeasure expressed by the union Home Ministry over poor polling in Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency, the NC led Government has initiated tough measures against sections of youth who carry out stone pelting. Official sources said that on the basis of inputs given by the intelligence agencies police have ordered a crackdown on those boys who are known to have the potential for disrupting the ongoing poll process.
Sources said that after a poor showing in Anantnag constituency where the polling percentage touched 28, just one per cent higher than the one recorded in 2009, the state Government agencies have pressed into services various plans for mobilizing people to cast their votes in Srinagar and Baramulla constituencies where it was going to be mainly a contest between the PDP and the NC despite the fact that there are several other candidates in the field.
What worried the state Government agencies is the reaction from people against the arrest of groups of youth on charge of stone pelting. The police had to face tough time in controlling groups of people protesting against the arrest of several boys in Hajin in Bandipore district and in some parts of Sopore and Baramulla areas.
It is in this context critics of the Government move on crackdown argue that arrest of youth on a large scale could prove counterproductive in the sense that even those who had some idea of walking to the polling booths for casting votes may change their mind as part of their reaction against police crackdown on potential stonepelters.
Inside reports said that security forces have been told to go slow as f ar as the crackdown on the mischief mongers was concerned.
They have been asked to keep a strict vigil in highly sensitive areas so that boys, who had plans of disrupting the poll process, were taken into preventive custody. In the meantime additional companies of paramilitary forces that were relieved from their duty in Anantnag constituency where polling was held on Thursday have been deployed in Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency where polling is to be held on April 30. And if the polling was completed without any major incident of violence these companies would be deployed in Baramulla constituency where polling is to be held on May 7 |
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