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EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, June 14: Expressing his deep concern over the fast deteriorating public order in the state, Mufti Mohammad Saeed has asked the state government to look beyond cosmetics, photo ops, bullets and bayonets, and address people's problems seriously.
Terming the present coalition as a cosmetic dispensation, the Mufti alleged that the government was concerned only about managing the fallout of miss-governance and atrocities rather than working with any vision, agenda or a heart in job. The more it looks up to galleries the more it gets distanced from the roots, he said, fuelling anger, alienation and instability.
The Mufti said instead of understanding the pain and problems of people and trying to mitigate them the government had brought the state to a virtual disaster in a matter of months. While the streets in Srinagar and other parts of the valley have become killing fields, law and order has crumbled in other parts of the state and development has come to a virtual halt, he claimed... In Jammu the criminals are active, threatening life and property, while the use of brute force against students at BGS University is another pointer to the emerging chaotic conditions.
Regretting that mishandling of the situation and government's careless and casual attitude towards good governance had created a host of difficulties for the people, the Mufti cautioned that situation could get out of control if the drift remained unaddressed. He said all sections of society were dissatisfied with the administration and its total collapse could be hastened by the use of indiscriminate force against innocent youth. No government can hope to carry along the people in the process of governance and development by abandoning itself to police and letting it manage matters of statecraft, he said.
The Mufti said government's inability to deliver had resulted in wasting the gains of previous years which were made through a painstaking process in which the people had participated with conviction and hope.
He regretted that at a time when relations between India and Pakistan had taken a positive turn the managers of the state had succeeded in reversing the process... India and Pakistan, he said, can achieve pretty little unless the people of the State repose confidence in their efforts as had happened after 2002 elections. It is the state of J&K that will have to lead the process of resolution and friendship but "I don't see that happening as long as innocent people are killed, opposition muzzled and all dissent crushed with the use of brutal force and laws like AFSPA and PSA", he stated.
Urging the government to put its act together before it is too late the Mufti said it seems to have forgotten the basic job of governance. He said all development works seemed to be on a hold and problems of power, roads, rations, sanitation and water had been accumulating, while the unrest caused by mismanagement was sought to be put down through the use of force. This seems to have become the first rather than the last resort for the government.
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