Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 6: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference senior leader and Member of Parliament Mohd Akbar Lone today said that development activity in Kashmir has been thrown to wind and the woes of people have deepened on account of Government failure to tackle the same.
Addressing scores of party workers, functionaries and delegations from north Kashmir at his Srinagar residence, party’s Member Parliament said, ” The party has faced various turbulent times, but each time it has resurfaced and resurrected itself owing to the close bond of trust it shares with the people of J&K. At present J&K is in the throes of crisis. The representative voices continue to remain incarcerated and those outside are not being looked up to while taking decisions. Every day we see how far reaching measures and administrative decisions are taken. What is being done in J&K is not compatible with democracy.”
The visiting delegations apprised him about various issues concerning their area and the MP lent a passionate ear to them and ensured them that he would take up the issues at appropriate forums.
Lone while referring to the prolonged detention of party president, Dr Farooq Abdullah, vice president Omar Abdullah, Ali Mohammad Sagar and others said that their constant absence from the political landscape of J&K was not in favour of the country in general and J&K in particular.
“By denigrating mainstream politics in Kashmir, the incumbent Government has created a dangerous vacuum reversing all the gains of the past two decades. It was our party which had to shoulder the coffins of its scores of leaders and thousands of workers to reinstate the faith of people in democracy and rule of law. The diplomatic edge of the country at international forms vis-à-vis has also incurred heavy dents.”
Decrying the callous process of demonitization, and vilification of tallest representative voices of J&K he said, “They were the ones who stood the turbulent times braving odds in a place which has been fraught with conflict and terrible consequence of it, the continued incarceration of tall representative voices, former Chief Ministers, sitting Member of Parliament is not a good omen. The measures of Central Government have delegitimized everything the mainstream politics in Kashmir stood for. By detaining Dr Farooq Abdullah, a sitting Member of Parliament the Central Government has sent clear signals of its contempt for Kashmiri representation. It is disrespectful to have a sitting Member of Parliament, whom former PM Late Vajpayee had referred to as third party to Kashmir in confinement. One is at its wits end to ascertain what good will serve it to push genuine people’s representatives to wall, crowding them out,” Lone added.
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