Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, June 19: The CPI (M) State secretary Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami today said that the Centre should hold unconditional dialogue with the separatists in Kashmir.
Tarigami while talking to reporters on the sidelines of a convention organized by AMM to devise the strategy for the Assembly elections scheduled to be held by the end of this year.
Slamming Chief Minister Omar Abdullah over failing to provide justice to the families of 130 youth killed during the summer unrest of 2010, the CPIM leader said that despite his repeated pleas over punishing the guilty, Omar did nothing. “And now when the earth beneath him shook after the recent poll debacle, he raised concern over the killings”, he added.
Tarigami in his address to the convention said that he asked the Chief Minister on the floor of the House that if he cannot give back the precious live to the families, he must at least give them justice.
The CPI (M) leader who is also a convener of AAM while castigating the State authorities over usage of pellets on unarmed protesters stated that earlier there used to be the bullets of one type and now such non-lethal weapons have been introduced in Kashmir by virtue of which a person gets disabled permanently.
Tarigami remarked that Srinagar city that has the honour to hold international conferences in the past, is crying for attention. He said that the successive regimes here have ‘ignored’ and ‘exploited’ Srinagar for vested interests. “The most unfortunate aspect of the present crises is that the city is being termed as the hub of stone pelting”, he added.
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