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| Killers of 120 youngsters, actors of Haji Yusuf murder, swindlers of cricket money ruling J&K: Mehbooba | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Apr 25: Launching a scathing attack on National Conference (NC) led coalition Government, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti called it a cruel irony that killers of 120 youngsters in 2010, actors of Haji Yusuf murder and swindlers of cricket money are ruling the State and enjoying luxuries while thousands of young men who protested democratically continue to be treated like criminals
She said this while addressing series of public meetings in Amirakadal Assembly constituency here today. Mehbooba said that only about 400 cases were being processed for withdrawal out of 5000 FIRs against the youth accused of stone pelting and regretted how an entire generation of bright, young and conscientious Kashmiris had been maligned throughout world by the NC led Government.
But she assured the youth who were present in large numbers in these meetings that with their help and cooperation the State would be delivered from the tyranny of NC and its cohorts. Mehbooba said that State Government has failed to respond to the development needs of Srinagar city. "Painting a few places on the eve of office move or redoing road dividers to benefit favorite contractors is no development while the city is facing a unprecedented crisis of infrastructure deficit" she said.
"It is like treating leprosy with cold cream" she remarked while articulating the problems faced by the people. Mehbooba said while the entire State was reeling under misgovernance, Srinagar had been held hostage by a clueless Government that has neither a vision nor the capacity to execute any plans.
Money received for the development of city, its water supply, drainage system, road upgradation, construction of flyovers, power supply or traffic management is straightaway going into the pockets of politicians who have sucked the blood of this city for decades. She said that it is as a result of this loot of national resources that Srinagar is now not only becoming discomforting to its citizens but life threatening as well on account of dog menace, dug up roads, dark streets and open manholes.
PDP president said the ruling National Conference is accusing the opposition for all its ills as if we have to teach them how to govern, be honest and progressive. "While we point out the gaps in governance with all sincerity for the benefit of the people, the Government becomes uncomfortable owing to its arrogance and intolerance" she said while it results in punishment for the people.
"Srinagar is getting punished as if for electing eight MLAs from the city and an MP, though it is by now acknowledged universally as to how tactical rigging was resorted to for NC's benefit on account of a low turnout in previous elections," she maintained. She said the NC was hoping to repeat the same tricks in future and was therefore least bothered about the fate of the city but advised people to see through this game that has allowed the party to rule them without a mandate.
Referring to the delay in holding civic elections Mehbooba said that Government was concocting alibis to continue to rule the urban areas through their blue eyed officials who help them perpetuate unauthorized constructions and backdoor recruitments. She pointed out that the civic elections were due in 2010 and since then three winters and lean tourist seasons have passed but even now it is in no mood to conduct these elections.
"However, they can only delay and not deny the right of the people to have an elected civic body that is empowered sufficiently and is accountable to people" she said. Mehbooba said the NC was raising dead issues like the 1975 accord only to divert attention from its disastrous performance in Government.
She said the accord between Sheikh Sahib and Indira Gandhi was only a power sharing arrangement after the late Sheikh Sahib sold out the sacrifices of his colleagues and followers. "That arrangement is carrying on between their descendants while the interests of the State, one after the other, in the shape of water and power resources or institutions like the J&K Bank are being sold out brazenly".
She said now the autonomy under the NC has been diluted to such an extent that the State has to go by Central diktats even on the level of dog population to be maintained in Srinagar. "I wonder how Omar Abdullah can live comfortably in his luxury while more than 50 human beings are bitten by dogs just in Srinagar in what has rightly been called a blood bath" she said and wondered whether the rulers were taking a vicarious pleasure out of the death dance on streets of Srinagar.
Mehbooba said the NC had greatly contributed to disempowerment and degeneration of the historic Srinagar city and its people. She said first they exploited the people here emotionally for decades, alienated them from rest of the country and then took on the role of "setting them right" through task force, POTA and now fake police cases. |
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