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| PAGD divided on G20 summit in Srinagar; Farooq, Mehbooba not on same page to oppose event | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 19: Differences appeared to be have cropped up between the two main constituents of the Peoples’ Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) over the coming summit of G20 in Srinagar.
Leaders of the National Conference and People Democratic Party (PDP)-the main constituents of PAGD have taken different lines of the decision of the Union Government to hold the G20 summit in Srinagar-the capital city of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
While PDP chief and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is opposing the holding of the G20 summit in Srinagar, National Conference president and veteran leader Dr. Farooq Abdullah is optimistic about the coming historic event in the Union Territory.
Talking to media persons two days back Dr Farooq Abdullah said that they are hopeful that the G-20 meeting in Srinagar would pave the way for the arrival of foreign tourists in J&K.
“Kashmir is famous for tourism, but since the terrorism erupted, the foreign tourists are not visiting J&K. We hope that this event will help to pave the way for foreign tourists to visit J&K again,” he said, adding that the delegates of different countries are visiting here for tourism purposes.
Important to mention here that earlier some NC leaders opposed holding the G20 summit in Kashmir but now they are appreciating this decision.
PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti believes that the G20 summit would be a futile exercise as, according to her, as the event gets underway in Kashmir, one can’t help but notice the Narendra Modi government’s urgency to market it as an “event of normalcy”
“Right before G20 in Kashmir, security forces are breaking into homes, ransacking & violating the privacy of people here. As if the existing repression in Kashmir wasn’t enough, the Government of India’s paranoia about G20 has unleashed bigger demons. Even women are not spared”, she observed.
“In the run-up to the G20 event, we have witnessed an increase in an already unprecedented security presence.
In the guise of ensuring an incident-free event, hundreds of young men have been detained”, she alleged.
“I understand the relevance of such events. G20 may well serve as a cosmetic image-building exercise for an ultra-zealous right-wing government”, she said. |
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