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| Mehbooba rejects Chief Minister's 'seasonal calender' for rights activists | | ' It is like prison time table for visitors' | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar,June 11: Strongly disapproving the Chief Minister’s “Seasonal Calendar” for human rights activists, journalists and writers who intended to visit the state , president of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party Mehbooba Mufti today said this is unacceptable in any democratic system even if it is as flawed as under the NC rule.
She said with his every statement Omar Abdullah was only substantiating the charge that his government was following the most draconian models of dictatorship and intolerance.
Responding to the Chief Minster’s latest interview given to a local news agency Mehbooba said its overall tone and tenor sound as arrogant for the people of the state while conveying a massage of total surrender to political galleries as if in acknowledgment of the general impression that he heads an outsourced administration which is not accountable to the people.
She said these remarks could ordinarily be dismissed as coming from an inconsistent and insensitive politician but they assume serious dimensions because they come from an elected Chief Minister of a highly sensitive state that has witnessed only miseries and problems under his government. Prescribing a time table for rights champions sounded like prison timings during which the inmates could be visited, she said and pointed out that such a 'generous' relaxation could come only from a NC chief minister which was unprecedented in free, democratic India.
Mehbooba said it was highly disturbing that Omar Abdullah had chosen a day to stress the conditional durability of his tenure as Chief Minister when entire Kashmir is mourning the brutal killing of 120 mostly young men and children only a year back.
That is clearly a matter within the coalition. But instead of reassuring people about reining in his forces in future, dismantling the security raj and taking them into confidence about punishing the killers of Tufail Matoo and those who followed into the graves, Omar Abdullah rolled out a new and renewable charter of repression.
She said the people of the state fully shared the grief of the parents and families of police victims even though the government instead of showing remorse or signs of change had charged them with indecent accusations like being criminals, drug addicts and sponsored agents.
Condemning the filing of a criminal case against a prominent journalist of the state who is associated with a highly respected global organization, Mehbooba said this action had of course added another black page to its history of arrogance and intolerance but in the process compromised country's image as well.
She said Nayeema Ahmad Mehjoor deserved at least the courtesy of a chance to explain the context of her face book remark before she was treated as a criminal. She expressed complete solidarity with the media in fighting such excesses and the routine denial of freedom of expression under this government.
Mehbooba said the Chief Minister’s description of the enforcement of Sec 144 in Srinagar as a routine is something any democratic government would consider an embarrassment. But an administration that survives only on draconian laws like the PSA, would have no compunctions in making Section 144 a permanent feature of governance as the Chief Minister seems to be suggesting.
Demanding immediate release of political prisoners and youth put in various jails and police stations Mehbooba said the actions of the state had become untenable to the extent that the state High Court quashed the detention of as many as 20 persons on a single day. But while the government is routinely subverting the judicial process in the state by open defiance of court orders it would be a wonder if the Chief Minister finds himself secure enough to take this judgment as a serious development and begin releasing the detainees by honoring it to signal a change.
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