“Rather than inching towards promised Normalcy, J&K has only seen worsening of the situation. J&K continues to witness political vacuum, unemployment, development deficit, misgovernance. The troubled legacy of 2019 and subsequent enactments paint a bleak picture of the region’s future” : Farooq Abdullah
J K News Today
Srinagar, October 10
National Conference on Monday lamented that the legacy of the August 5 ,2019 actions – scrapping of Article 370 and subsequent enactments have brought Jammu and Kashmir face to face with bleak future for the region. He challenged the BJP’s narrative that the normalcy was returning to Kashmir as he observed at his party’s working committee meeting of Budgam district in Srinagar on Monday . He said : “Rather than inching towards promised Normalcy, J&K has only seen worsening of the situation. J&K continues to witness political vacuum, unemployment, development deficit, misgovernance. The troubled legacy of 2019 and subsequent enactments paint a bleak picture of the region’s future”.
Farooq recalled that the “trajectory of J&K’s pluralistic identity has been fashioned by the J & K National conference and the party will defend it with all its might”
He alleged that the “The real object of BJP is to push the real representative voices to the background and denude its plural and unique identity. The people of Jammu and Kashmir: Kashmiris, Dogras, Gujjars, and Paharis won’t allow this to happen. The mood and sentiment of the people in Chenab, Pir Panjal and everywhere else is the same. People of J&K, no matter which region, religion and division, they belong to, have made it a point to stand up for their rights,” he said, adding that there was a groundswell of anger against BJP, and its A & B teams across J&K. “
Exhorting the party functionaries to intensify their public contact, he said, “Our cadre has to reach every door step and educate people about the imminent threats to our future. Forces, which we are fighting, are conniving to weaken our political voice by creating divisions among us. They are working day in and day out to divide us on a regional, religious, and cultural basis. The efforts to divide us will receive further increase, as the people are seeking answers from them now. Any claim of normalcy and development in Jammu and Kashmir at present looks like a far cry from what the BJP government had intended while taking the decisions of August, 05 2019.”
Among others Party General Secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar, Provincial President Nasir Aslam Wani, Senior leaders Abdul Rahim Rather, Muhammad Shafi Uri, party Treasurer Shammi Oberoi, Central Zone President Ali Muhammad Dar, Provincial Secretary Showkat Ahmed Mir, Provincial VP Syed Tauqeer, Deputy Political Secretary to VP Mudassar Shahmiri, party leaders Dr. Muhammad Shafi, Saif Ud Din Bhat, Manzoor Wani, GN Bhat, DDC members from Budgam, women’s wing, YNC functionaries were also present on the occasion.
