Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 30: Senior PDP leader and former Parliamentarian, Dr Mehboob Beg has come down heavily on the Central Government’s attitude towards Kashmir and not taking confidence building measures to improve situation in the Valley.
“The Central Government needs to get its act together, they started by heeding to the PDP’s constant efforts at providing relief to the masses, the amnesty that was announced, the unilateral cease-fire, the offer to talk to every section of the society being some examples of the same and now they have resorted to the complete opposite,” said Dr Beg in a statement, issued here today.
Dr Beg further pointed-out that the ‘aggressive approach’ now being adopted by the BJP led Government was only proving counter-productive. “They are forcing democracy at the grass-root level, the people are not in the mood at all, the Government of the day must respect that,” he said.
Dr Beg said it was the BJP which had claimed that they would look to bring the situation under control before reviving the Assembly which continues to be in suspended animation, thereby implying that the ground situation has not improved at all but at the same time Panchayat and Urban Body elections are being forced on the people. “The priority must be to take some concrete confidence building measures and improve the situation, forcing elections down our throats will not help,” concluded Dr Beg.
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