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| Government shrinking amid credibility loss: Mehbooba | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar Feb 8
Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti has said the chief minister’s ‘faryaad’ (pleas) to the central government to nab killers of youths in valley itself is an acknowledgement of his failure to govern the state.
Referring to the reported plea of Omar Abdullah to the union home ministry to help him in nabbing the killers of the innocent Nishat teenager Zahid Farooq, Mehbooba wondered whether this was a repetition of the Shopian investigation drama.
‘While the wounds of Shopian and a number of other innocent killings including those of Inayat and Wamiq were fresh, the state government seems to be trying to wash its hands off the unpardonable crime in Brain, Nishat by knocking at Delhi’s door,’ she added.
Mehbooba said it seems people of the state, particularly Srinagar were left to their fate that was scripted by the security and police forces alone.
She said Srinagar had been converted into a prison, essentials were not available and people suffered for food and medicines.
The PDP president said the ruling NC had historically taken the people of Srinagar for a ride and its politicians thrived for decades on its emotional exploitation. She said the promise of punishing the killers of Zahid sounded cruelly like the pronouncement to catch the rapists and murderers of Shopian in 48 hours.
Mehbooba said unless a wholesome review was made of the Kashmir policy by the centre it was not possible to assuage the hurt feelings of the people here and find a lasting solution to our problems. Forces had to be thinned out from civilian areas and the AFSPA revoked completely to instill confidence among people of J&K. She said the writ and relevance of the state government had shrunk so much that the administration here by its own admission had no knowledge about anything be that the killers of Shopian, Bumai, Khaigam and other places and now Nishat, or the award of a Padma Shri to Moma Kana. “It is for the coalition government itself to ponder over the situation and look for a fair answer to the questions about its total loss of credibility,” she added.
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