KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
National Conference on Monday lashed out at the State Government for overseeing a wave of mass repression and indiscriminate arrests in Kupwara District and said youth were being booked in false cases on political grounds at the behest of PDP leaders.
In a statement issued from Party Headquarters in Srinagar, National Conference Senior Vice President and Former Minister Chaudhary Mohammad Ramzan said Kupwara District was reeling under a ruthless mass crackdown where people were being targeted for their political affiliations under the fig-leaf of suppressing the current agitation.
“There have been a couple of instances where even people who work and live abroad have been booked under false cases despite the fact that they haven’t been in the country for more than a year. In some affidavits and documents seeking the imposition of Public Safety Act, the administration has listed being a worker of National Conference as an apparently cognizable offence that justifies arrest and prosecution. Youth are being arrested at the behest of local PDP leaders and this is adding to the alienation on the ground,” Chaudhary Mohammad Ramzan added.
The NC Senior Vice President said reports of houses being ransacked, fodder being destroyed and crops being burnt indicated a clear and deliberate crackdown by the Government on civilians in the State.
“There is a concerted attempt to humiliate the people and persecute them into political submission. The PDP-BJP Government of Mehbooba Mufti has crossed all limits of repression and ruthlessness and has pushed the youth of the State farther from the goal of reconciliation and peace. Kupwara District has been handed over to the Police and it seems only PDP workers are immune from this perverse persecution. When PDP leaders and workers start deciding who deserves a PSA based on the individuals political affiliations, one can only rue the future of the State under the current dispensation,” the NC Senior Vice President said in the statement.
“The same PDP that talked of a ‘battle of ideas’ philosophy has now declared an all-out war against ideas and those ideologies that go against its opportunistic alliance with the RSS and the BJP. Mehbooba Mufti is living in a fool’s paradise if she thinks persecution and repression can prevent PDP’s imminent rout from the State’s political landscape. She has failed the people of the State and lied to them in order to get her own political empowerment. Every single promise, every single slogan of the PDP has been sold to the BJP for the Chief Minister’s chair,” Chaudhary Mohammad Ramzan further added.
The Former Minister said the Police and local administration should not operate on political lines and should refuse diktats from PDP leaders and workers who want to misuse and abuse the system to settle political scores and blunt the sharp sense of dissent against their Government.
“The Police should not compromise its objectivity and the administration should ensure justice, objectivity and rule of law isn’t trampled upon by PDP leaders and activists who are more interested in partisan politics and retribution than succeeding in achieving normalcy and stability in the State,” the Senior NC Vice President said.
