Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 10: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) Member of Parliament from Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency, Justice (retd) Hasnain Masoodi today said the new industrial policy would not fetch any result without taking into cognizance political aspirations of people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.
In a statement here, he emphasised that the recently announced Rs 28,400 crore industrial scheme would not fetch any results in absence of an aggressive peace initiative to address the political aspirations of the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.
Masoodi has reminded the Government that earlier such announcements – Rs 6165 crore package announced by late Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee in 2002 and Rs. 80,000 crore package announced by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi in 2015, have not changed anything on ground.
“The alienation, despite such announcements, has been ever increasing and that the unconstitutional measures of 5th August 2019, nothing less than an misadventure, have further widened the gulf. Hundreds of lives have been lost in about a hundred encounters, quite a few in urban areas of Srinagar and Jammu. Government does not even, one and a half years after assault on the special status of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, muster courage to restore the internet at the speed available in other parts of the country exposing millions of students and businessmen to immense loss and inconvenience, he added.
He said the preventive detention law, an anathema to Constitution, continues to be invoked with impunity and young and old detained hundreds of miles away from their homes,.
In such a scenario, he said the Industrial Development Scheme, in absence of a result oriented peace initiative, is like changing the bed linen of a hospital bed instead of providing medical care to cure the patient.
He said the trade bodies must realise that peace and development go hand in hand and peace would not be possible without political aspirations respected and addressed. It is to be realised that there can be no “islands of prosperity “ in a “sea of pain and agony”, he added.
Masoodi has asked the Government of India to undo the 5th August 2019 decisions, restore autonomy provided under Delhi Agreement 1952, initiate dialogue with all the stakeholders for lasting peace and open the historical and traditional routes between all the regions of Jammu and Kashmir to facilitate trade, travel and people people contact in an important region of South Asia.
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