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| KTMF calls for Kashmir Bandh on May 5 | | KTMF calls for Kashmir Bandh on May 5 | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 2: A premier organization of traders of Kashmir valley has given a call for Kashmir Bandh on May 5 against the government indifference to the compensation of flood affected people and the traders.
The traders have also decided to carry out a sit-in in support of their demands. They will assemble at the Budshah Chowk on May 5 and lodge protests against the alleged government apathy in rehabilitating the flood affected people.
Talking to Early Times, Chairman Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation (KTMF), Mohammad Yaseen Khan said that despite lapse of eight months after the September 2014 flood, the governments have failed to compensate the flood affected people and traders. Khan said that state government is adding insult to the injury of the flood affected people by throwing parties at the cost of state ex-chequer. "Time and again we appealed to the central government to pay compensation to the flood affected people. Our pleas have fallen on deaf ears with the affected people including traders continuing to suffer. This apathy from the people at helm both here and at the centre has forced us to give a strike call on May 5," said KTMF Chairman. Pertinently, the Durbar Move offices reopen in Srinagar on May 5 after closing at Jammu on April 24. Congress has already decided to observe the day as 'Black Day' with the party workers scheduled to carry out a protest rally up to the Civil Secretariat.
Khan lambasted state government's decision to hold tourism promotion programmes and said that these programmes would have been in tune had the flood affected people been compensated. He alleged that the flood affected people including the traders have been left in lurch by the government with no relief in sight.
"The strike on May 5 is just the beginning of our struggle. If the government continues to show apathy towards the flood affected people then we would carry out a civil disobedience movement across the valley. We pay taxes to the government and once they fail to come to our relief we are left with no option but to lodge protest," said KTMF Chairman. KTMF's call for strike has been endorsed by the various trade committees of valley. Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA) an amalgam of traders, hoteliers, transporters and other sections of business community has also pledged its support to the strike.
"The people at helm seem to be unmoved by the miseries and sufferings of flood affected people. As such it is quite in tune to carry out a strike in support of the genuine demands so that some pressure is built on the government. There would be complete strike on May 5 and hopefully the government would awake from the slumber," said KEA Chief Spokesman, Siraj Ahmad. Siraj also took a dig at the government for its decision to re-settle Kashmiri Pandits in satellite townships in the Kashmir valley. He said that Kashmiri Pandits are welcome to come back and settle at their native places instead of living in the 'dedicated' colonies. |
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