Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Sept 8: The Member Parliament and National President Janata Dal (United), Sharad Yadav today said that militancy in Kashmir was fall out of flawed elections in the State.
While addressing a public meeting here, Yadav said that it is a fact that elections have never been fair in Kashmir. “Rigging takes place at ease during elections and those people are elected whom people don’t like. In such conditions, how we can expect that peace to prevail in Kashmir.”
He said that he will launch an agitation if the forthcoming Assembly Elections are rigged here. “I tell you with authority that there would have been no militancy, had elections been fair here,” he said.
He said that the situation in Kashmir is bad and people here are suffering to a great extent. “Who are responsible for disturbance here? The promises made by New Delhi were not fulfilled. Former Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru had promised Kash-miri people that they would lead a respectable life and those promises have been broken. Even Indira-Abdullah Accord was not implemented in true spirit,” he said.
Yadav expressed shock over the killing of four youth in South Kashmir’s Shopian district. “There is not an iota of doubt in this fact that Kashmir people have been and are being immensely harassed and suppressed”, he added.
The JD (U) president said that Central funds are being misused by the State Government. He further said that huge chunk of funds go to the pockets of elite political and administrative class.
Yadav said that Gover-nment should take concrete measures to relieve people of Kashmir from all the miseries and oppression. “If we would come to power, I promise to the people of Kashmir that Army would be sent back to barracks and police would be made accountable,” he said.
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