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| Gen Sinha speaks…again | | ‘Healing tough was wrong policy’ | | AGENCIES
Dubai, Dec 14: Former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Lt Gen (Rtd) S K Sinha has slammed the pension benefits being given to the families of Kashmiri insurgents killed in encounters, calling it a warped approach which helped project India's image as a soft state.
In a hard hitting interview with a local daily today, Lt Gen Sinha said when Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, he came up with a slogan ''healing touch''.
''And I as Governor said it was a good thing, but let there be healing touch for the victims of terrorism rather than the terrorists. After Mr Sayeed ceased to be Chief Minister, we had a series of round table conferences and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) kept on demanding subsidy for the terrorists,'' he said.
''So, in 2007, one of the decisions taken was to provide pension benefits to the families of insurgents killed in encounters. Now this does not happen anywhere in the world! You provide pension to families of security personnel who get killed on duty, not to the terrorists. But then this is the warped approach of the Government of India,'' the former Governor told the Gulf News.
He welcomed the current elections in the state. ''Despite several pundits saying there will be a small voter turnout, the boycott call given by the separatists and PDP chief Mufti Mohammad Sayeed saying the elections should not be held in the state, there has been more voter turnout in Kashmir than in Delhi. What does it indicate? That the silent majority is asserting itself.'' On his earlier accusation that Mr Sayeed stagemanaged his daughter Rubaiya's abduction in 1989, he said, ''this has been widely talked about in the whole of Kashmir. There is also a book by Abdul Rahim Wagh where this is mentioned. And yes, the decision to get his daughter released in lieu of the five terrorists was the beginning of trouble in Kashmir.'' |
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