Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 17: National Conference (NC) general secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar today said that only NC can stop Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh from heralding into chaos, saying that the party is committed to its founding principles underlying protecting J&K’s cultural and political interests.
Addressing the party’s block and Halqa functionaries from Khanyar constituency segment here at party headquarters, Sagar said that there was discrimination against the people of J&K and that the locals aren’t being actively involved in decision making processes at highest levels of Government.
He said at present there is an impression among masses that local Government, law making and other democratic and political powers enjoyed by the countrymen in other parts of the country are only the matter for the airdropped oligarchy of officials alone.
“Government of India has failed to tailor the new touted change post unilateral abrogation to the local geography, history, culture, political aspirations and different socio-economic characteristics of J&K and Ladakh. Far from strengthening the idea of friendly, participatory and democratic federalism, the present ruling dispensation is abating the democratic rights,” he added.
He said the much touted new model of governance in J&K was marked by repressive, lopsided and heavy taxation being levied on people. “The insensitiveness of the Government can be ascertained by the way people are being overburdened with taxes ranging from toll taxes, property taxes, to houses taxes,” he said.
Party’s YNC provincial president Salman Ali Sagar was also present on the occasion. Speaking on the occasion, he stated that the absence of any impetus to the infra-projects, ineptitude to cope up with the aftermaths of the rampaging two successive lock downs post August 5, 2019 has badly exposed the failures of coterie having their hands on the helms of power in J&K.
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