Naeem Akhtar mocks at BJP ministers for their “double-standards’
J K News Today
Jammu, March 3:
The ruling People’s Democratic Party today lashed out its ally BJP in the coalition government and charged it with politicizing an inhuman criminal act of a rape and murder of a girl in Kathua last month.
Public Works Minister Naeem Akhtar who also is government spokesperson issued a statement on behalf of his party on Saturday taking to task BJP ministers who had participated in a rally demanding CBI probe into the crime .
The PDP leader issued the statement authorized by party president and Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to condemn the “ politicization of rape and murder” of the girl and holding BJP, without naming the alliance partner and ministers in question- Ch. Lal Singh and Chander Prakash Ganga , to distance the government as a whole and the PDP from the utterances of the two BJP ministers.
Lal Singh and Ganga had raised serious questions about the nature of investigations and the random arrests made in connection with the crime. They had charged the police with acting in a partisan manner against the Hindu community. They had said that the police were not doing their job professionally and had suggested that the criminals behind the heinous crime should be hanged but not without evidence.
Naeem Akhtar mocked at these politicians saying , “Ironically, the same politicians who are today questioning the professional capabilities of the police force and want it to be kept out of investigations into Kathua incident, make a beeline to offer tributes when any personnel of the same force sacrifices his life while fighting elements inimical to peace,” he said and added that there can’t be double-standards in valuing the responsibilities of this key institution in one breath and demeaning the same institution in another breath.
“Whether it is J&K Police or for that matter any other investigating agency, they will catch up with the criminal and bring him to justice as such individuals are a cancer for the whole society,” Akhtar said and added that if innocent Ashifa fell victim to a felon today, tomorrow it can be anybody’s daughter or sister, as any kind of political patronage will only embolden such criminals to have their way.
