Srinagar, Apr 06: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference General Secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar on Thursday said that people of Jammu and Kashmir are in grips of an unprecedented variety of problems due to the worrisome erosion of people’s democratic power.
This, he said, while interacting with the office bearers, workers and a number of public delegations that had called on him here at the party headquarters Nawa-e-Subha, Srinagar.
Decay of vibrant democratic spaces in J&K, Sagar said, has magnified people’s issues whose mitigation seems to be nobody’s concern.
“The lingering undemocratic rule, absence of viable legislature and resultant unaccountability has marked the regions turn towards instability, precarious economic situation, mounting insecurity, rising unemployment, all time high inflation and widening development deficit,” he said adding, “Common people especially our educated and skilled youth across Jammu, Kashmir, Chenab and Pir Panjal regions are carrying the heaviest brunt of the longest ever spell of bureaucratic rule , the region has ever witnessed.
The former minister said there is no citizens’ involvement in decision-making at any level and the incumbent government in J&K for the last four years has become hogtied to the self-appeasing baboos.
Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Provincial President Nasir Aslam Wani said that J&K is in deep crisis and the party has to live up to the expectations of people by walking shoulder to shoulder with them during the prevailing situation.
He said this while interacting with party functionaries at Nawa-e-Subha, Srinagar.
Nasir said that there is no let-up in the everyday injustices committed on people. He alleged that every section of the society, particularly the youth are grinning and bearing it.
“The outsourcing of jobs and issuance of majority of mineral and mining blocks to non-locals, disengagement of employees, new media policy, opening up of big retail outlets, and manifold increase in tolls and tariffs on public utility services have further deepened the insecurities of our people, particularly youth,” he said adding, “The figures about escalating levels of unemployment released by the government’s own institutions lay bare how depressing the employment, development, and governance scenario is.
He said the much-touted investment in Kashmir has only remained confined to high teas, luncheons. Nothing substantial is visible on the ground.”
