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| Govt trying to sabotage all-party visit: Mehbooba | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Sept 19: The Jammu and Kashmir government headed by Omar Abdullah has started a process to sabotage the visit of an all-party delegation to Kashmir by imposing fresh curfew, People's Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti alleged on Sunday.
Speaking in a news conference here, Mehbooba said the fresh the curfew has caused more anger in Kashmir and such a curfew and beating of the people is to sabotage the delegation meet.
Mehbooba went on to say that she will reconsider attending the delegation if curfew continues. Most parts of Valley are under curfew for the seventh consecutive day today.
She said the delegation must directly interact with the common people.
"The common people's plight needs to hear. The real problem of the people is not being exposed. No food is being transported, medical supplies don't reach hospitals and mobile connections are disconnected. You have to reach out beyond what the party wants to see, they have to make an effort to reach out the common masses, the government is beating people," said Mehbooba.
Welcoming the withdrawal of call by Hurriyat (Geelani) about demonstrations outside military establishments, Mehbooba expressed hope it helps in avoiding a confrontation with Armed Forces. It is hoped the government also appreciates this move and lifts the latest siege in entire rural Kashmir carried out on the pretext of preventing trouble she said.
Mehbooba said the present government was like a dead body kept on a ventilator. But as a parting kick it is trying to destroy the place that it was supposed to govern along with its institutions and lives of the people it claims to represent. She said no elected government has ever been as repressive as the Omar Abdullah dispensation. In reply to a question whether she wanted this government to go as a way out Mehbooba said it had run out of all legitimacy and moral authority. “In any case its going or staying seems to have lost significance”, she added.
An all-party delegation will visit the Kashmir Valley; it was decided in a meeting on Wednesday chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and attended by leaders of all major parties, including Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders L K Advani and Nitin Gadkari.
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