Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Feb 18: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference today rued that no steps are being taken by the Central Government to assuage the situation in J&K.
The party in a statement issued here asserted that the uncertainty in Jammu and Kashmir has completed six months with no end to the miseries of people in sight.
A provincial meet of party functionaries, parent body members, women’s wing functionaries, YNC members, and scores of other party office bearers was held here at party headquarters Nawa e Subha, Srinagar.
The meet was presided over by party’s provincial secretary Advocate Showkat Ahmad Mir. The party’s district president Srinagar Pir Afaq Ahmad, provincial spokesperson Imran Nabi Dar, Women wing provincial president Er. Sabiya Qadri, Shabir Kullay, G H Rahi, Syed Tauqeer, Younis Mubarak Gull also addressed the meet.
The speakers expressed concern over the uncertainty, chaos and confusion that have beset J&K following the measures which were taken on 5th of August, 2019.
The speakers said the new norms in J&K have cost it its jobs, tourism, industry, handicraft and horticulture. They maintained that the people are seeing no light at the end of tunnel and that the Government is busy in crowding-out the J&K’s legitimate voices. “The continued incarceration of party leaders Dr Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah and others defies logic, morality and legality,” the leaders said.
While extolling the role of party leadership, they said the party will continue to follow the golden rules laid down by Sheikh Abdullah, “our ideology is shorn of regional, religious prejudices. We have not allowed bigotry sever us from our age old proclivity for democratic ideals and secular values,” they said.
Party leaders maintained that until and unless party leadership Dr Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah, General Secretary, provincial president including other party leaders are released there can be no headway.
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