Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 17: A high-level delegation comprising of senior party leaders led by NC General Secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar called on Governor N. N. Vohra and raised the party’s concern about the spate of targeted killings of civilians in Sopore.
The delegation besides NC General Secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar comprised of NC Provincial President Nasir Aslam Wani, Senior NC Leader and North Zone President Mohammad Akbar Lone and NC Baramulla District President Javaid Ahmed Dar.
The delegation while questioning the Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s and the State Government’s conspicuous silence on the targeted killing of 7 civilians in Sopore, apprised the Governor that the mysterious phenomenon of these killings coincided with the Union Defence Minister’s remarks that hinted at re-inventing counter-insurgents in J&K.
The delegation also termed the recently announced Flood Relief Package as a cruel joke with the flood victims and said the only component that related to the flood victims is the cruel joke of a mere Rs 551 crores that have been announced for the entire 73,000 completely damaged, severely damaged and partially damaged houses – while the remaining components of the paltry flood relief package were imaginative attempt to brand routine, non-emergency central funding as flood relief – which amounts to misleading the public.
The delegation expressed disappointment that there was absolutely nothing in the paltry Flood Relief Package for the business and traders community, for thousands of affected entrepreneurs, artisans and shopkeepers.
The National Conference delegation also expressed disappointment over the PDP-BJP Coalition Government’s brazen U-turn on the issue of return of power projects to J&K. Referring to the official remarks of the Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal, the NC delegation expressed amusement at how a promise made in the Common Minimum Program between the two ruling parties had been broken such effortlessly in the presence of the State’s Power Minister and Finance Minister – who pertinently chose to remain silent and not raise the issue of the return of power projects.
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