Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 4: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference general secretary, Ali Mohd Sagar today said that trusting the people of J&K with democracy and basic fundamental rights can go a long way in healing their wound and cleaning the cobwebs of mistrust between Srinagar and New Delhi.
Addressing a meeting of senior party functionaries and workers at party headquarters today Sagar said, “The absence of democracy and a long spell of bureaucratic rule has obstructed the development prospectus in the entire region. The airdropped coterie of officials at the helm of power in J&K seems to care little about the issues concerning the people,” he said.
“It was claimed that the post abrogation era will iron out all issues and put the region on the track of “development and prosperity” but in reality the region has been plunged into an abyss of chaos and uncertainty. The morass that the entire region finds it in belies those claims. The local administration has become slack and is not living up to its obligations. It is our educated and skilled youth who have particularly been at the receiving end of all this,” he said.
Pointing out to the extensive puff-jobs and window dressing of incumbent administration, Sagar said people are suffering on different accounts ranging from inflation, development deficit, to rising unemployment and administrative inertia. “Denying genuine democracy, fundamental rights, press freedom and equitable development to people in J&K is what J&K has seen post august 2019,” he said.
While alluding to the plight of skilled and well educated unemployed, Sagar said that the educated youth of Kashmir see an uncertain future in wake of absence of any effective job policy, absence of private sector and failure of the government on its promise of accelerating the recruitment process in JKSSB and JKPSC.
He impressed upon the Divisional administration to ensure all basic and effective amenities at all the major shrines in Kashmir, particularly Asar-e-Sharief Hazratbal in view of the forthcoming Eid-e-Miladun Nabi (SAW) observance.
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