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| Leh raids reflect anarchy in J&K: Mehbooba | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, June 3:
Terming the current situation in the state as almost anarchic Peoples Democratic Party today strongly condemned the reported harassment of tourists in Leh Ladakh. “We strongly condemn the uncivil behaviour and harsh treatment with tourists in some Leh hotels and demand an explanation from the government” the party president Mehbooba Mufti said in a statement here today. She was responding to the reported raids on some Leh hotels the other day which resulted in panic among the tourists and the industry. Mehbooba said not just would the widely reported incident spell doom to the depressed tourism sector, but it would cost the country’s image considerably as the victims of this completely avoidable exercise are mostly foreigners. Having come after the unseemly conflicting reports from different agencies of the government about the presence of militants and infiltration, she said the state had been turned into a veritable blunder land. “Whatever suits an agency or political leadership to promote its so called interests is said without fear of questioning as the people have no way to verify either report” she regretted.
But in the process the interests of the state were grossly compromised. Mehbooba said that while the damage caused by chief minister’s controversial statement about militants having succeeded in infiltration into the state was yet to be fully controlled, the opening of a new front in Leh completes the picture of anarchy.
She said if there was any doubt in the political leadership of the state government having completely lost control over administration and its security forces, Leh incident was singularly sufficient to remove such doubts. The district has remained free of any trouble even when rest of the state was passing through worst times and even during the Kargil operations no such scanning of foreign tourists was resorted to. “The explanation offered to the intrusion into the lives and privacy of tourists only reinforces the general view about over militarization of civil space in the state and the need to review it”. |
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