Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, July 23: KPC expressed serious concern over the breakdown of administrative machinery in the State, attacks package employee in camps, minorities, police stations, vehicles, Government offices and held the State Government responsible for its utter failure to restore rule of law and criticized the Government for having failed to respond appropriately to the situation created in the wake of killing of Hizb Commander and the resultant turbulence witnessed in the Valley.
It also expressed dismay and annoyance over State Government. for appealing separatists to help in restoration of peace and normalcy instead of given free hand to security forces to weed out the subversion who inflicted huge losses on State exchequer, injuring hundreds of security forces injured, tourists harassed and religious pilgrimage being assaulted and said that it was virtually a case of lawlessness prevailing in Kashmir with no signs of Government on the ground .
In an organizational meeting at New Delhi today, KPC chief Kundan Kashmiri sought an immediate intervention of Home Minister of India as well as Governor of the State to impose the Governor’s rule under the powers vested in them by the Constitution. He said that most alarming was harassment and threat to the minorities in the Valley, the dis-arming of the security personnel who were ordered by the State Government. not to use force despite the gravest provocations of the saboteurs and violent attacks by them, which resulted around one thousand five hundred security personnel got injuries. He further said that the fast deteriorating situation has reverted back to early nineties and situation can go out of control of Government.
He strongly also condemned the attacks on, KP minorities, security forces and police stations, where from seventy automatic and semi–automatic weapons of J&K police were taken away by the subversives and anti nationals who had virtually taken control of State of affairs in Kashmir.
KPC besides imposition of Governor’s rule in the State, strongly demanded that all PM package employees, be brought back to Jammu and Delhi and to be absorbed in State and Central Government offices outside the Valley.
Other KPC leaders and activists who spoke on the same lines were 10 Pandit, M.N.Raina. Susheel Bhat, Rinku Razdan, S.L. Zuthsi etc.