Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 17: CPI (M) today alleged that highest level of violence in a decade, lowest economic activity and unending political uncertainty in Kashmir today is the outcome of the BJP Government’s wrong policies due to which there is gloom everywhere in the Valley.
This was stated by CPI(M) senior leader and former MLA, M Y Tarigami while addressing a party convention at Qazigund in district Anantnag today. He said Kashmir is in constant chaos and the new realities are being sketched under the shadow of guns and the BJP’s aggressive, muscular Kashmir policy – an approach long called for by its parent organisation, the RSS. Kashmir looks like a ruined place, with human life at great peril, he added.
He said there is a trail of disappointment, let-downs and downright lies and broken promises by the BJP Government.
Tarigami said more than three year of BJP-PDP alliance, which ended last year in June, has left the State in a quagmire of violence, polarisation and crisis. The words and deeds of BJP and PDP leaders don’t match as they claimed so much when they entered into an alliance and ultimately left the State in perils.
Prime Minister on August 15, 2017 said, “Kashmir needs hugs, neither abuse nor bullets”, he added. But instead of hugs Kashmiris faced pellets, bullets, deaths, jails and PSAs. Indiscriminate arrests, registering cases, slapping PSAs and NIA raids is not going to solve the problem. There seems to be no light at the end of this dark tunnel.
He said to hold dialogue with all stakeholders, including the voices of dissent is the only answer to end this cycle of violence and uncertainty in Kashmir. Death and destruction has virtually taken over and the saner voices have become the causality. Votes and ideologies apart, can all the mainstream and separatist parties have internal dialogue as to how some relief could be given to the people of the State, he added.
Tarigami said the best option recognised by the civilised world to settle disputes is the process of dialogue as violence only leads to death and destruction. Even those countries which have been on the war path with each other, finally settle the issues only when they sit on negotiations table. New Delhi must engage with the leadership of J&K, including voices of dissent. Political dissent has to be dealt with through dialogue, not power, he added.
While addressing the convention, Ghulam Nabi Malik, State Secretary CPI(M) said that the economic activity in Kashmir Valley has been severely hit due to the unrest in the last almost three years. Real reason behind the dip in economic situation of the State is due to the ongoing unrest since the middle of 2016. Almost everything has come to a standstill.
The convention was presided over by Ghulam Nabi Wani, senior leader.
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