Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 2: National Conference Working President Omar Abdullah today questioned the PDP-BJP Government’s political will and seriousness to ensure the safety of civilians in the State.
During visit to Beerwah constituency, Omar Abdullah condemned the killing of 43 year-old Mohammad Yousf Bhat, Nambardar of village Vagum in Pulwama and expressed his heartfelt condolences with the bereaved family.
He questioned the PDP-BJP Government’s political will and seriousness in ensuring the safety of civilians in the State and said the Government’s callousness over such tragic incidents was unfortunate.
The NC Working President and MLA Beerwah also interacted with numerous public delegations and sought feedback over various works in the constituency. He informed the visiting delegations that he strongly advocated the timely redressal of all public grievances in the constituency in the recently held District Development Board meeting for Budgam district and that the Government has assured him that it would look into all these issues in a timely manner.
Meanwhile, National Conference, while taking strong notice of the statement by Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh about the Government’s refusal to consider the revocation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), said such remarks expose PDP’s complete and total sell-out to the BJP for the sole aim of coming to power.
NC General Secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar while terming the Union Home Minister’s statement as unfortunate and counter-productive, said both PDP and BJP had pledged to pave way for the revocation of AFSPA in their ‘Agenda of the Alliance’.
He also lamented the fact that the Union Home Minister had closed all doors to dialogue with the separatist leaders and said this was another successive U-turn enacted by the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed PDP-BJP Government.
“Mufti Sayeed tried to create many moral smokescreens ahead of formally forging PDP’s previously informal alliance with the BJP. One such moral smokescreen was PDP’s alleged ‘condition’ of getting AFSPA revoked. It has now become evident that this was a lie that was propagated to fool the people into believing that this alliance had apparent ideological bearings”, Sagar said.
The much touted ‘Battle of Ideas’ slogan has also now turned out to be a complete farce. What ‘Battle of Ideas’ is this where the doors to dialogue have been shut and sealed – paving way for a status-quo and uncertainty? he asked, adding this clearly doesn’t auger well for peace and stability in the State.
The NC General Secretary said that Chief Minister’s conspicuous silence on repeated remarks by the Central Government and his ally BJP was an indication of his sell-out. “The Chief Minister has not spoken a word about AFSPA revocation or dialogue with separatists since coming to power in the face of repeated refusals from the Central Government and BJP within the State to agree on these issues”, he added.
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