Budgam, May 07: Senior Congress leader and AICC Steering Committee Member Tariq Hameed Karra on Sunday rejected the tall claims being made by the BJP government with regard to its ‘Achey Din’ and ‘Naya Kashmir’ slogans, terming these as “misleading” and a “bundle of lies”.
Karra was addressing a workers’ meeting at the Beerwah area of Central Kashmir in which senior party leaders and prominent workers of the segment participated.
“J&K is witnessing the ugliest situation on security, employment, development and various other fronts,” Karra said while addressing the meeting.
“In Naya Kashmir, people are robbed of their democratic rights while keeping them away from elections coupled with vindictive policies, oppression, suppression, and imposing anti-people orders with a stroke of pen. People are not allowed to raise their voice and seek restoration of their just rights in Naya Kashmir,” Karra rued. J&K wants ‘Purana Kashmir’ back which does guarantee the protection of people’s rights, safety, peace, dignity and honour, he said.
He said the Central government’s policies have pushed J&K towards the “darkest era”. “The deliberate delay in holding assembly elections and restoration of statehood to J&K reflects that the government has lied on the floor of the House while shying away from the elections for the reasons known to them,” he said.
“The GoI has neither fulfilled the promise of restoring statehood nor paving way for holding elections aiming to rule J&K directly from Centre, but how long such misadventures on the Part of BJP will continue in J&K,” Karra questioned.
The senior Congress leader expressed serious concern over the “rising unemployment” and “lack of development” in J&K, saying, “The government is not able to curb unemployment which has led to the drug menace amongst the youth even those educated youth who opt for job interviews don’t get the chance to appear, as that, the interviews announced gets abruptly cancelled, which has happened in recent past. One fails to understand that when the interview slips were issued why the aspirants are served interview cancellation notices after that without any rhyme or reason, which is indicative of the failure on all fronts on the part of the government.”
He also alleged that the government “is drawing sadistic pleasure out of the intimidation of people as a whole, and employees and educated unemployed youth in particular”. He urged the government to adopt a friendly approach towards unemployed youth and create job opportunities for them.
