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| Mehbooba visits Boniyar, says Govt terrorizing Kashmiris with bullets | | | ET Report
SRINAGAR, Jan 3: Describing the unfortunate killing of Altaf Ahmed Sood at Boniyar yesterday by CISF as part of government terror, Peoples Democratic party president Mehbooba Mufti today said such incidents are aimed at preventing people from protesting even for their basic amenities.
Addressing people at Boniyar today where she had gone to convey her condolences to the family of Altaf, she said, "Use of brute force by government is to muzzle the voice of people who are suffering unprecedented problems as a result of mis-governance." She was accompanied by party general Secretary Mohammed Dilawar Mir and members of party's Baramulla District body.
Mehbooba alleged that the government has been using force to put fear in the minds of people from day one with the objective of preventing an uprising against its misrule.
"Silencing of Haji Yousuf last October was a part of the same strategy so that no body dared to talk about corruption in the govt or in Abdullah family," she said. "The killing of 120 youth in 2010 was a message written in blood to a generation not to speak up for their democratic rights under NC rule."
Mehbooba said the government has proved beyond doubt that it is not at all sensitive to the needs of the people. "Its priorities are wrong and execution faulty and corrupt. The announcement made yesterday made by PDD which works directly under the chief minister that it would start operation of the Gas turbines to increase power supply to the valley could have come a few days earlier and the precious life of a young man could have been saved," she said though it is yet to be seen whether any improvement is actually effected in the power scenario but the government has sent a clear massage that it would not listen even to the most genuine demands unless the blood of ordinary citizens is shed by forces.
This attitude, she claimed, has completely disconnected the government from the people and set them on course of a confrontation.
Mehbooba said while entire state was suffering because of the handing over of prestigious power projects by successive NC government's to NHPC the government has failed miserably on management front as well.
She alleged that NC had traditionally taken people of Kashmir for ride on emotional and false promises "but the public memory is not so short that they cannot recall how the power supply scenario had improved under the previous coalition inspite of the gap between supply and demand."
"Unfortunately that positive environment in which people and the government worked in close cooperation and gave a chance to installation of meters with an incentive of uninterrupted power supply has been subverted by the present government which came to power on the false and misplaced slogan of "Meter Todo Heater lagao"," she said Omar Abdullah had even gone to the extent of promising free power and free gas to the people and "now under his government they are receiving bullets for demanding even paid electricity."
Reiterating her party's demand that the areas close to power projects should be provided free and uninterrupted electricity Mehbooba said this should apply to Boniyar and other villages adjacent to Uri Hydel project as well. She said the areas where power projects are located suffer immensely on account of the loss of land and environmental degradation and it is the right of those people to at least get power from these projects.
Condoling the death of Altaf in cold blood Mehbooba said the inquiry ordered by the CM is only an "eye wash."
"What happened to inquiries and police cases that have been instituted so for," she asked.
The PDP President said there has been no progress even in a single case of state atrocity right from the killing of a young man in Alochi Bag, killing of Zahid Farooq, Wamiq Farooq, three children in Anantnag, Haji Yusuf and more than a hundred others. She said lodging FIR or ordering an enquiry has become a stock response of the government to all human rights violations just to take the heat off the moment.
"Once things settle down the tragedies forgotten," she said adding "the incident at Boniyar only refreshed the wounds of those who lost more than half a dozen young men during previous Farooq Abdullah regime, protesting power shortage."
"NC governments traditionally promoted a culture of impunity and Omar Abdullah is no different," she added. |
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