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| Mufti asks government to stop crackdown on youth | | NC exploited Srinagar for personal power | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, 24: Strongly condemning the continued crackdown on youth Peoples Democratic Party patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said the government was apparently underestimating the damage such harsh methods were causing to efforts at finding a solution to Kashmir problem. Addressing a public at Hazratbal he urged the government to realize the setback its wrong policies and intolerance of dissent was causing to the interests of the state.
“People of Kashmir are not mad or driven by fanaticism that the government refuses to understand the reason of their anger” he said.
They fully cooperated with the previous government in bringing back normalcy and Srinagar city and other areas witnessed a complete relaxation of government controls and curbs, he said pointing out how the people of Srinagar had responded to his initiatives with an open mind.
He said he had received reports that since yesterday scores of young boys had been rounded up in Srinagar and other areas of the valley to sustain government’s ‘peaceful summer’ obsession. “Is this not a violation of human rights about which it is being repeatedly claimed the government will have a zero tolerance for?” he said. But I, my party colleagues and cadres would not allow this situation to continue as we have the peoples mandate for doing so.
Mufti said a democratic and sensitive government uses force, police and detention as a last resort but the present government use them as first option as it has failed in providing, security, justice, employment and amenities.
“They are using police even as a substitute to justice and instead of responding to their needs and development and security it has given a free licence to security forces to clamp a dictatorial rule in which people are not able even to express genuine concerns”. This is an antithesis of our democratic system which
National Conference has always sacrificed for power and caused irreparable damage to state and its institutions.
Former Deputy Chief Minister and senior PDP leader Muzaffar Hussain Beigh in his address blamed successive National Conference (NC) regimes for exploitation of people for their own comforts and power.
He said Srinagar had been a particular victim of NC’s lust for power.
“The eight MLAs of Srinagar and the MP are from this city and still they let funds meant for roads here to be diverted as if all our development needs had been fulfilled’ he said and regretted the party had taken the city for granted.
Compared with NC’s four decade rule, the PDP Congress coalition in a brief period had given an entirely new direction to development of Srinagar.
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