Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 18: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference today said that the exclusivist policies and the scripted mayhem of ruling dispensation at New Delhi towards Jammu and Kashmir has left a trail of destroyed economy and smoldered democracy.
While expressing concern over the widespread administrative inertia, crumbling economy, soaring unemployment and scathing alienation of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, party general secretary Ali Mohd Sagar said the subsequent milestones achieved by the ruling dispensation were ill-conceived and back breaking. He said that mutilating, down grading and dis-empowering Jammu and Kashmir has pushed the entire region into a limbo and on the terminal path of alienation.
“Ruling dispensation has pulverized decades of our investment in peace building and strengthening of democratic institutions in one fell swoop by giving precedence to a party ideology over the supreme interests of the country. The people of Jammu and Kashmir live in an environment where they are not trusted with basic civil rights that includes democracy. Far from delivering on the promises of flooding the region with investment, creating job extravaganza, and augmentation of infra-projects, the measures of August 5, and all other subsequent orders and notifications have only been able to undermine the emotional connect of people of J&K with the rest of the country. The measures of August 5, we were told would bring J&K at par with other states, but the things were reversed, ” he said.
Sagar stated that the promises made by the ruling dispensation at the time of unilateral and abrogation of J&K’s constitutionally guaranteed status have fallen flat. On the contrary the spurious claims of the ruling dispensation at New Delhi have become apparent looking at the crumbling tourism, handicrafts, and health and education sectors in J&K.
He said there can be no redemption in the situation unless New Delhi doesn’t change its August 5th decisions. “There can be no trade off between political aspirations and development ambitions of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Both have to go hand in hand. New Delhi has to give a sense of entitlement to the people of Jammu and Kashmir by undoing its August 5, 2019 policy and restoring democracy to its pristine glory,” he added.
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