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| Govt does the maximum, PDP says not enough | | Cancel land order or face more reaction, threatens Mirwaiz | | Early Times Reporte
Jammu | June 29
The historical decision of the Governor which was accepted by the Chief Minister to resolve the crisis has not gone well with the Peoples Democratic Party and the separatists spearheading the agitation in Kashmir Valley.
Even though the Chief Minister and the Governor did what maximum they could have done but the agitating parties said that nothing short of canceling the land allotment order and full control of the state government over yatra affairs will work. Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has declared that the protests and demonstrations will continue till the order is not cancelled while PDP described the decision as half-way measures which are further aggravating the situation.
The Governor NN Vohra had last night written to the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad that the Amarnath Shrine Board was no more in need of the forest land and also asked the government to take over the yatra affairs. In response to a letter from the Governor, Mr. N. N. Vohra who is also the Chairman, Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board, asking if the State government was ready to assume the responsibility of undertaking the required logistical development and provide all required support and facilities to the Amarnath Shrine pilgrims during the yatra period, the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has assured him that the government would undertake to discharge all responsibilities and do everything required to be done in public interest.
An official spokesman here said today that the Governor had written a letter to the Chief Minister enquiring from him if the State government would be ready to undertake the responsibility logistical development in order to provide all required support and facilities to the pilgrims and fully ensure their welfare, safety and security during the entire period of yatra.
In response, the Chief Minister has written to the Governor that the State government undertakes to discharge all the responsibilities that the Governor had mentioned in his letter, adding it was the duty of the government to do everything that was required to be done in public interest. The Chief Minister said, “We strongly feel that it is in the interest of the State Government and the people at large to not only provide all support and facilities to the pilgrims but also to ensure their full safety and security”
The Chief Minister added that the Amarnath yatra had been going on for more than a century and a half and had always been supported by the people of the Valley. “We will not permit this great tradition of communal harmony and togetherness to be tampered with”, the Chief Minister said.
Reacting to this development, the Peoples Democratic Party said the reported decision of the State Government to take charge of the logistics arrangements of the Amarnath Yatra is only a half-way measure which would not help in resolving the grave situation that has engulfed the State. This was resolved at a meeting of the PDP leaders presided over by the party President Mehbooba Mufti here today.
The meeting observed that the PDP has, from the very beginning, maintained that the problem surrounding the diversion of land to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) needs a two-pronged solution involving both revocation of the controversial land diversion order and taking-over of the entire arrangements of the Yatra by the State Government as was done before the constitution of SASB.
"The more the Government dithers, the situation could become more dangerous," the meeting observed. It said the recurrent ambiguity in Government decisions is only adding to the confusion instead of diffusing the crisis facing the State.
Acknowledging and responding to the sentiments of the people, the Government should without any further delay revoke the land-diversion to diffuse the grave situation instead of trying to brush the matters under the carpet under different garbs.
The meeting observed that the Governor Mr N N Vohra must take charge of the things and use his administrative and political acumen to manage the dangerously evolving situation in the State so that the huge investment made by all sections of the society in the peace efforts do not go waste. |
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