Excelsior Correspondent
GANDERBAL, Dec 26: Urging the youth to spearhead the movement for change, senior PDP leader and former Finance Minister, Tariq Hameed Karra today said the State’s young population has become the biggest victim of the tyrannical policies of the present Government as they are being subjected to collective punishment.
“Besides getting victimized collectively by the repressive policies of the present Government, the State’s youth are being subjected to economic subjugation by depriving them the opportunities of employment and other income-generating avenues,” Karra said while addressing a party workers’ convention at Shalbugh here.
He said a culture of waywardness and drug abuse is being promoted among the youth under a clandestine plan to incapacitate them. He said by corrupting various institutions including BOPEE and recruiting agencies, the present Government is pushing the youth towards a perpetual state of despair and uncertainty.
“After pushing the youth into despondency, NC then exploits them for short-term political gains,” he said and added that as a part of its well-designed ploy to impose economic subjugation on the people, the present regime is operationalizing all the devious means to push Kashmiris into perpetual political enslavement.
The latest penalizing power curtailment imposed by the Government in Kashmir is indicative of the complete breakdown of the State’s administrative machinery and callousness of the political executives,” he said, adding if there is really a shortfall of energy import from Northern Grid, why the people in Kashmir are only subjected to harsh power cuts, even if they pay more electricity tariff.
“The people are fed up with the insensitivity of this self-centered regime and they would respond appropriately to this feeling of utter neglect when the time comes,” he said.
Senior PDP leader Qazi Mohammad Afzal also addressed the convention.
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