Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 15: National Conference on Saturday lashed out at the PDP-BJP Government of Mehbooba Mufti for its alleged deliberate machinations to persecute the people of Kashmir to quell the popular perception against PDP’s sell-out.
In a statement, NC South Zone president and former Cabinet Minister, Sakina Ittoo alleged that institutional decay and misgovernance had become the hallmarks of Mehbooba Mufti’s Government apart from the killing and blinding youth, unprecedented wave of repression and indiscriminate arrests. She also hit out at the Chief Minister for allowing Kashmir to be deprived of vital educational institutes and said this was part of a greater plan to rob the youth of Kashmir of career opportunities.
“The State Government has become the subsidiary of RSS’s systemic infiltration into J&K’s polity and is furthering their divisive, anti-Kashmir and anti-minority agenda. PDP’s alliance with those who find their political identity in opposition to J&K’s special status is a dangerous internal assault on our political rights and dignity. PDP has become an RSS Trojan Horse and has bartered the interests of the people of Kashmir to remain in power. The fact that Kashmir has been deprived of IIM, IIT and NIFT while the Chief Minister is busy appeasing the BJP is an indication of where the people of Kashmir stand today”, Sakina Ittoo said.
The former Minister alleged that Mehbooba Mufti had handed over the keys of the secretariat to the RSS and had become more loyal to the RSS than BJP itself. “When the previous Omar Abdullah-led Government could succeed in getting two Central Universities for the State, each for Jammu and Kashmir, why couldn’t Mehbooba Mufti ensure that Kashmir isn’t deprived of an IIM and IIT?”, she asked.
“We are not against an IIT and IIM in Jammu, but why is the Government so openly prejudiced against the people of Kashmir and why is the delicate regional balance of the State being violated?, the Former Minister said.
The NC leader also lashed out at the State Government over the shifting of NIFT from Kashmir to Jodhpur and said this was yet another indication of disempowerment and prejudice.
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