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Promised flood of investment & development nowhere visible in J&K: Omar
3/29/2021 12:45:39 AM
Early Times Report

Srinagar, Mar 28: Hitting out at BJP-led NDA government in the centre, former chief minister and National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah said that the promises made while abrogating special status of J&K, including flooding the region with investment, bringing about more employment and development, were nowhere visible in the erstwhile state.
Meanwhile, asserting that the betterment of Jammu and Kashmir rides on the Indo-Pak Bonhomie, Mr Abdullah hoped that the positive shift in the relation between the neighbors augurs well for long-lasting peace and prosperity in the entire region.
Referring to the August 5, 2019 measures, he said the measures were undertaken at the pretext of ushering in development in Jammu and Kashmir. He said the state was downgraded, divided and sheared off its constitutional status in the nonappearance of its elected leaders, who he said were caged for months altogether both at in-house and out-house confinement centers to ensure that the center had a free walk in bulldozing the state’s political identity and other constitutional safeguards.
“The measures were undertaken at the pretext of flooding the region with investment, bringing about more employment and development. But so far the promised flood of investment, development, infra-up gradation is nowhere visible on ground. What is it that has been achieved by GOI? Contrary to it the entire region has been put on the path of terminal alienation and dismemberment. The striking feature of the Kashmir post August 5, 2019 has been marked by administrative inertia, development deficit, crumbling economy, and failure of the administration even to ensure basic amenities like water, electricity and connectivity to people. All the promises which were made to people in the run up for unilateral measures of August 5 have deflated. The government has lost its plot. The only thing that the GOI has been able to achieve is to put the entire region on the path of terminal alienation,” he added.
On the front of peacemaking, he said that it was told that peace will prevail in the region post nullification of the state’s constitutional status. “But the prevailing situation doesn’t attest to what was being claimed,” he said.
He said that asking people to remove Pherans at government functions explains it all. “It has never been the case, even in the height of turmoil nobody was ever asked to remove their Pherans at government functions. Having such a measure in place now reveals how better the security situation has become. It took the party five days to get permission for today’s public gathering. It has become a norm, never has this been the case that political gathering and public meets had to wait for such a long time to get permission and other security clearances,” he said.
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