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| Omar's incompetence squeezes political space: Mehbooba | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, June 24: Condemning the fresh wave of arrests in Kashmir in which political leaders and youth in large numbers have been detained under the PSA, Peoples Democratic Party, president, Mehbooba Mufti today said draconian measures could never be substitute to a political engagement.
Mufti said that the incompetence and ineptitude of the coalition government has resulted in the squeeze of political space and reversal of democratization process in the state.
She said the detention of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mohammad Yaseen Malik and other leaders, house arrest of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and indiscriminate rounding up of youth on flimsy grounds have once again revived the pre-2002 atmosphere of terror.
Lashing out at the NC govt, Mehbooba said it was PDP who had introduced politics of dialogue, discussion and debate in the state as it believed in battle of ideas which could be carried out only in a democratic atmosphere free but the Omar Abdullah government has created an atmosphere of confrontation in which the only visible government face was police and security forces at loggerheads with the common man.
The PDP president said the National Conference as an organization seemed to be collapsing all across the state, as a result of lack of leadership. She said even the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh had during his recent visit been forced to point to the inability of the state government to tackle issues of ration, power, roads and water.
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