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| 'Proposed Sainik Colony' could be a ruse to settle non-State-subjects in valley: Omar | | | S Tahir-ul Haq
Early Times Report
BARAMULLA, May 7: Lambasting the present PDP-BJP regime for proposed Sainik Colony in valley, the National Conference Working President Omar Abdullah on Saturday said the State Government's proposal to go ahead with allocating hundreds of Kanals of land in the Valley for a proposed Sainik Colony could be a ruse to settle non-State-subjects in Kashmir and hence bypass Article 370.
Addressing party leaders and workers at Dak Bungalow Baramulla today, former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that the PDP-BJP Government's glaring contradictions on the 'Sainik Colony' proposal had given rise to apprehensions about their underlying political motive.
"From denying that land is being provided to the 'Sainik Colony' to the Administration officially writing to concerned officers to identify land for the colony, the PDP-BJP Government of Mehbooba Mufti has come a full circle. Considering their track-record over the past more than a year, people have serious apprehensions and rightly so," said NC working president.
Omar said, "Is the Mehbooba Mufti led Government trying to re-enact the 2008 turmoil where a PDP Government set the State on fire in violating the State's special status by giving away hundreds of kanals of land to the Shrine Board in violation of legal norms, Article 370 and various inviolable constitutional provisions?"
"There seems to be an uncanny similarity between what PDP did in 2008 and what the PDP-BJP Government is trying to do today with the 'Sainik Colony' proposal, he added.
"Mehbooba Mufti's shocking exclusion from the high-level meeting on J&K chaired by the Union Home Minister in New Delhi was an unmistakable example of her disempowerment and how she was squarely responsible for bartering away the sanctity and constitutional mandate of the Chief Minister's office to remain in power," Abdullah said.
He further said that, "In an important meeting where developmental projects in J&K, the State's security scenario and other vital issues were discussed, the State was represented by the Honorable Governor instead of the elected Chief Minister.
It seems her silence on the 'Sainik Colony' issue was also a result of her complicity in such political manoeuvres that are aimed at weakening the State's special status and altering its demographic character," Omar further added.
Meanwhile the State Government today clarified that no land has been allotted or is being allotted anywhere in Kashmir for any housing project in the name of Sainik Colony.
Minister for Education and State Government Spokesman, said, like some other sections of the working class and professionals, the ex-servicemen belonging to the State have been demanding land for a housing colony, but no allotment of land for any such project has been made anywhere in the Valley. |
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