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| Sajjad Lone bats for cable operators | | Calls Rana `don' | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, July 17: The People’s Conference (PC) chairman, Sajjad Ghani Lone has accused the Chief Minister and his Advisor, Davinder Singh Rana of `playing don' with the cable operators.
According to him, Davinder Rana was harassing the Valley's cable operators and has resorted to arm twisting for his personal business interests.
Sajjad stated that Rana who according to him has interests in Take One channel has been using the Police to harass cable operators by blackmailing them to run his channels based in Jammu while local channels are still censored.
"An SP of J&K Police and a DySP have gone around and harassed cable operators yesterday under the supervision and orders of the CM's Political Advisor. These cable operators have run the cable network in Srinagar for the past 20 years despite great odds and risk and around 21 individuals belonging to these cable operation networks in Kashmir have lost their lives in the course of their work during the turmoil", he said.
He added Davinder Rana and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who were expatriates from Kashmir during the turmoil have the audacity to use State machinery for personal business gains.
"Rana who is a distributor for some national channels in the State holds a monopoly over airwaves and has been using this monopoly for conspicuous political motives despite his constitutional position in the Government", Sajjad alleged.
The Chief Minister, Lone added, was a part and parcel of this tragic mafia-like behaviour where local Kashmiri cable operators had to be subservient to distributors in Jammu, especially Rana - who has time and again resorted to political hooliganism for his personal business goals.
Lone stated that while he wasn't against Jammu or the businessmen there, this state-sponsored pattern of disempowering and exploiting Valley based businessmen and entrepreneurs is unacceptable and won't be allowed to go on.
Adding that he would personally join the valley based cable operators and even come out on the roads with them if they so choose, Lone said that the Chief Minister needs to put an end to his teenage antics and respect the Constitutional chair that he holds.
"If the CM and his Political Advisor think that they can snatch the livelihood of those associated with the cable industry in Kashmir, they were living in a delusion as such a policy was now exposed before the people and will be resisted tooth and nail", he said.
Appealing all political parties including those leaders in National Conference who still own a conscience and have some humanity left in them to treat this as a national matter and not a political issue, Lone asked all quarters to stand up for the livelihood and rights of the cable operators and against the hegemony and hooliganism of the CM and his Political Advisor in this issue.
He said Rana's don-like behavior was unbecoming of a constitutional office holder of the Government. "The Government was in a habit of creating problems that would enrage the public and then resorted to atrocities against them by branding them as anti-national elements", he said.
Stating that he left the issue and the incident of an SP and DySP getting illegally involved in this purely corporate battle to the conscience of DGP K. Rajendra for whom he has respect and regard, Lone said that he hoped the DGP would take cognizance of this glaring misuse of powers by the CM's Political Advisor and initiate necessary disciplinary action against those who are found to be guilty. |
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