*Innocents paying price of BJP’s policies: Mir
Excelsior Correspondent
MANWAL(Nagrota), June 4: Senior AICC leader and incharge J&K affairs of the party, Rajni Patil (MP) today demanded early restoration of statehood and safeguards for land and jobs for the residents of Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing a large gathering of Congress workers at Manwal in Nagrota constituency today, along with PCC president Ghulam Ahmed Mir and working president Raman Bhalla, Patil said the Central Government should accept the popular demand of restoration statehood and reserve jobs and land for local residents of J&K.
She said that people of Jammu and Kashmir especially, the youth have suffered a lot due to arbitrary and unilateral decisions of BJP Government at the Centre who want restoration of statehood at the earliest. There is demand for the safeguards for the protection of jobs and land for the locals which needs to be considered, she added.
Patil said the targetted killings of innocents including minorities is intolerable and against the basic principles of Kashmiriyat and must end immediately. She blamed Central government for its total failure on the security front.
JKPCC chief Ghulam Ahmed Mir lashed out at the Centre for its total failure on law and order front and said that the innocent people are paying the price of the wrong policies and wrong narratives and false propaganda of BJP. He said that the government failed to protect the innocents especially minorities who were not targetted in past so many years and stayed safe there. Amidst claims of normalcy, the targetted killings started in last two years which increased in the recent over six months, but the government has no plan of action to protect them and stop innocent killings.
Raman Bhalla lashed out at the BJP and Modi Government for celebrating eight years of government amidst killings of innocents and minorities in Kashmir. It is shameful for the BJP for being insensitive to the innocents killings and should have suspended all celebrations in the country especially in Jammu and Kashmir and making false claims of normalcy in Kashmir, Bhalla added.
Pranab Shagotra, Balbir Singh also spoke on the occasion and expressed concern over deteriorating law and order situation in Kashmir, rising unemployment and unprecedented price hike.
Prominent among those who were present on the occasion included Rumal Singh, Soma Devi Sarpanch, Ramesh Sharma, Janak Singh, Latif Mohd and others.
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