Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 6: National Conference General Secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar today said that people of Jammu and Kashmir are in grips of an unprecedented variety of problems due to the worrisome erosion of people’s democratic power.
He said this while interacting with the office bearers, workers and a number of public delegations that had called on him here at the party headquarters Nawa-e-Subha, Srinagar.
“Decay of vibrant democratic spaces in J&K has magnified people’s issues whose mitigation seems to be nobody’s concern. The lingering undemocratic rule, absence of viable legislature and resultant unaccountability has marked the regions turn towards instability, precarious economic situation, mounting insecurity, rising unemployment, all time high inflation and widening development deficit,” he said.
The NC leader observed that common people, especially educated and skilled youth across Jammu, Kashmir, Chenab and Pir Panjal regions were carrying the heaviest brunt of the longest ever spell of bureaucratic rule, the region has ever witnessed. “There is no citizens’ involvement in decision-making at any level. The incumbent Government in J&K for the last four years has become hogtied to the self-appeasing bubus,” he added.
Meanwhile, National Conference Provincial President Nasir Aslam Wani today said that J&K is in deep crisis and the party has to live up to the expectations of people by walking shoulder to shoulder with them during the prevailing situation. He said this while interacting with party functionaries at Nawa-e-Subha, Srinagar.
Nasir said that there is no let-up in the everyday injustices committed on people. He alleged that every section of the society, particularly the youth are grinning and bearing it.
“The outsourcing of jobs and issuance of majority of mineral and mining blocks to non-locals, disengagement of employees, new media policy, opening up of big retail outlets and manifold increase in tolls and tariffs on public utility services have further deepened the insecurities of our people, particularly youth,” he said adding that the figures about escalating levels of unemployment released by the Government’s own institutions lay bare how depressing the employment, development, and governance scenario is.
The NC leader alleged that the much-touted investment in Kashmir has only remained confined to high teas, luncheons while nothing substantial is visible on the ground.
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