‘UT outsourced to outside bureaucrats’
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 5: Expressing grave concern over the escalation in extremist violence in the erstwhile state of J&K and selective killings of civilians and security personnel, former minister Harsh Dev Singh today charged the Centre of failure in dealing with Pak-sponsored militancy despite its tall claims.
He said that while the governance in the UT seemed to have been outsourced to outside bureaucrats, there were hardly any takers for the growing alienation amongst the people against the present misrule. He said that with the political process having been rendered defunct in the UT, political parties discredited and discouraged and saner voices suppressed through govt agencies, the law and order situation had suffered rapid deterioration.
Maintaining that apathetic and lackadaisical approach of the centre towards J&K was responsible for re-emergence of militancy in J&K, Singh said that J&K needed a full time popular govt to save itself from further ruin and disaster. A self-flagellated BJP patting its own back over the years for its self certified normalcy and so called revolutionary changes in J&K had only evoked cynicism amongst the masses. The decisions of August 5, 2019 and extension of various other laws in pursuance thereof including the domicile law did not seem to have inspired the common masses or the youth of the UT. The abrogation of article 370 had failed to make any difference except that it was being used as a political fire-cracker in other states during elections.
He said that the govt’s claims of having stopped infiltration and curbed Pak insurgency had proved as mere hyperbole with militant activities having spread to even peaceful areas of Jammu region. He said that the recent bomb blast in Udhampur and other parts of Jammu region besides recurrent incidents of bloodshed and mayhem in valley had exposed all haughty claims made by the govt.
Accusing the Central Govt of indulging in incessant chest thumping in the wake of growing alienation in J&K, Singh called for early restoration of political process in J&K. He said that local leadership alone could represent the cause of its people, fulfill their aspirations and end their alienation. Singh said that a legitimate elected govt alone was the antidote to extremist violence in J&K.
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