Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Dec 31: The People’s Democratic Party while condemning the continuous siege of Pulwama town and its adjoining villages aftermath of the recent firing incident in which many people were injured, has criticized the NC lead Government for unleashing reign of terror on the people of J&K.
In a statement the party chief spokesperson Naeem Akhtar senior leader Syed Altaf Bukhari and MLA Pulwama Mohammad Khalil Bandh and MLA Rajpora Syed Bashir Ahmad have demanded immediate release of the innocent youth who have been arrested in the last four days.
The leaders said the Government had instead of resolving issues facing the youth targeted them viciously and thousands of them were framed in false cases. They said that in the modern age of free media young people of the State naturally compared their inability to voice their sentiments with what was happening in other parts of the country. They said Omar Abdullah had only recently advised Central Government on how to relate with youth and ‘learn from him’ but for the last four days his administration has virtually laid a siege in and around Pulwama while the Chief Minister himself is vacationing abroad.
” It is a travesty of justice that while more than a dozen persons were injured in firing officially attributed to ‘blocking traffic’ no action is contemplated against the perpetrators but youth are arrested for having protested against it”, they added.
Calling for lifting of curfew from Pulwama Syed Bashir Ahmad (MLA) said essential commodities like medicines and daily provisions were not available to the citizens which had caused a serious situation in the town. He said the Government must utilise its resources and energies in providing justice, amenities and good governance to people rather than count on its strong-arm methods to silence voices of dissent in the State.
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