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| Govt off realities: Mehbooba | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, July 2: As Chief Minister Omar Abdullah moves swiftly to salvage images of his government by initiatives like removal of CRPF from tension bound areas, the Opposition Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti has charged the government of silencing voices of dissent.
Mehbooba and her party colleagues were today allegedly prevented by the government from visiting Baramulla township in north Kashmir where curfew is in force after killing of four youth by the security forces.
Mehbooba said government was completely cut off from the ground situation as was evident from recent addresses of the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. ‘It was regrettable that a Chief Minister should have said that his government was least effected by hartals and strikes which conveyed an impression that he had closed his eyes and ears to public outrage and protest’ she said at a press conference near Srinagar.
She said the people of Shopian had been on strike for more than a month demanding justice within the system. It took entire Kashmir to demonstrate for ten days to make this government register an FIR in a case in rape and murder case. She said the government intentions of hushing up the case and shielding the culprits was now very clear. Instead of going after the perpetrators they were busy silencing those who demanding action.
The dreaded PSA was being invoked against 14 year old like Nayeem of Srinagar to the Imams of Shopian. She said such insensitivity on the part of a government was being witnessed first time after the departure of previous National conference government in 2002.
Mehbooba said she and her colleagues wanted to go to Baramulla only to condole the death and share the grief of families of four victims of Police brutality. They also wanted to express their solidarity with the people of Baramulla who were facing acute difficulty and hardships but the government, she said, prevented them physically from proceeding beyond Parimpora.
Earlier, the security staff of the PDP president and her colleagues refused to do duty on her visit to Baramulla when she started off from her residence in Srinagar. After she decided to go in private vehicle the gates of her residence were locked to prevent the leaders from going out.
It was after a wait of fifteen minutes at her gate that the security vehicles received the instructions to carry them and the gates were opened. But after traveling up to Parimpora the PDP president and her colleagues found that a security wall had been erected on the National highway.
They sat on dharna for about one and half hour after which the lady police physically lifted her and put her in the security car which was ordered to take her back.
Muzaffar Hussain Beig tried to take another route to reach Baramulla but he was prevented there also.
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