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| CM urges people to resume normal activity | | Asks leaders not to rake up already resolved issue | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | June 30
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has appealed the people to resume normal activities and let peace prevail since the issue arising out of the government order diverting forest land to Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board had been resolved.
The Chief Minister urged politicians and leaders of various groups not to put people to inconvenience and trouble by raking up an already resolved issue. He said that following the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board decision not to pursue with its request for the forest land for creating temporary facilities for the yatris and the State government undertaking to provide these facilities, besides ensuring safety and security of the pilgrims during the period of yatra, there was no reason for anybody to disrupt normal life in the Valley which had witnessed violence during the past few days resulting in the loss of precious lives and bringing to halt economic activity in Kashmir. Azad said that leaders of political parties and other groups who were still doing politics in the name of the forest land were not friends of the poor people whose daily livelihood had been badly affected due to the violence and disruption of normal life in the Valley. He said vendors, taxi operators, hoteliers, houseboat owners, shikarawallas, shopkeepers and labourers were put to great inconvenience and hardships. He said doing politics on a resolved issue and holding the entire society to ransom was meant to deprive these sections of their livelihood.
Regretting that the situation in Kashmir was sought to be disturbed by negative politics at a time when tourism had picked up in a great measure, generating appreciable economic activity, Azad said the recent developments has dealt a severe blow to the tourism sector in Kashmir and, in turn, to all sections associated with it. He said there could be any number of issues taken up by politicians for doing electoral politics but creating a situation where poor sections of the society were denied their daily bread was highly unfortunate.
He underscored the need for immediate restoration of peace and normal life to allow increased tourist inflow. |
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