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Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 15: On Monday the Jammu and Kashmir government issued a length handout in which it was claimed that the J&K was steering towards the highest echelons of rural emancipation but the authorities have failed to give reasons for the unabated killings of Panchayat members.
Despite repeated statements of those at the helm of the affairs, killings of Panchayat members are going unabated after repeated intervals in Kashmir Valley but authorities failed to inculcate a sense of confidence among them.
In the ongoing month of March, terrorists attacked Panchayat members at four different places in Kashmir Valley, making a mockery of the security arrangements.
• Continuing selective attacks on Panchayat members, a terrorist on March 12 fired upon a Sarpanch in South Kashmir's Pulwama district. The Sarpanch, however, escaped unhurt as a bullet fired by the terrorist, from a pistol, missed the target.
• On March 11, a Sarpanch in South Kashmir's Kulgam district was shot dead by terrorists. Sarpanch Shabir Ahmad Mir was shot from point-blank range at his native village, Adoora. He sustained multiple bullet wounds and was rushed to the nearby district hospital but succumbed before reaching there.
• On March 9, terrorists had gunned down PDP sarpanch Sameer Ahmad Bhat at his residence on the outskirts of Srinagar.
• Earlier on March 2, a panch, Mohammad Yaqoob Dar, was shot dead by terrorists at Kulpora in Kulgam district.
According to the president of All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference Anil Sharma during the period between 2011 to 2022, Jammu and Kashmir have lost over two dozen Panchayat members including Panches, Sarpanches, and Block Development Chairpersons due to terrorist attack on them and it is unfortunate that till date, not even a single terrorist responsible for these killings have been arrested or neutralized.
He said, the grass-root level democracy workers in Jammu and Kashmir are being assassinated in broad daylight yet no person responsible for their killing is even arrested, this is painful and shocking.
The AJKPC president said the family members of elected PRI members are worried over these killings and even compelling the elected members to resign from the post fearing risk to their lives and so far AJKPC has been successful in convincing them to trust the security apparatus and administration but the government has to show sincerity and maturing in this sensitive issue. |
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