In a statement, Khan said the Chief Minister’s statement that Sainik Colony would be constructed for state subjects contradicts the statement of government spokesman (Naeem Akther) who said no such colony would be constructed.
Day after she remarked in the State Assembly that asking Kashmiri migrant Pandits to restart their lives in their native places in Kashmir “is like putting pigeons among cats”, the J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday faced a massive flak for her statement, with the Kashmir Economic Alliance stating that her speech has “only furthered the chaos over government’s plan to allot land to outsiders.”
The KEA led by Muhammad Yasin Khan said the state government “seems to be executing RSS agenda in Kashmir and it should clarify its stand before the situation goes out of control.”
In a statement, Khan said the Chief Minister’s statement that Sainik Colony would be constructed for state subjects contradicts the statement of government spokesman (Naeem Akther) who said no such colony would be constructed.
Khan said on the other hand, Mehbooba said a transit colony would be constructed for migrant Pandits. “What does a transit colony mean? Obviously our Pandit brethren won’t be asked to live in tents till the colony is constructed; so what does the Chief Minister mean by ‘transit’?” Khan asked.
He said such statements were misleading.
“In the interest of peace and to avoid any Amarnath-like agitation, it’s our fervent appeal to the government to honestly clarify its position and shun all such plans whichever exist against the interests of Kashmir,” the KEA chairman said.
He said the Peoples Democratic Party has “become habitual of using confusing vocabulary to misguide people through terms like ‘intrinsic, extrinsic and now transit’, with regard to construction of Isreali-pattern townships,” he said.
“One thing has become clear from these statements that the coalition government has pledged to execute RSS agenda of converting Kashmir into Palestine-like ghettos and this is something we won’t ever tolerate,” Khan said.
He said by “gagging the voices of separatists and arrest of senior separatist leader Yasin Malik, the government is only pushing the Valley towards 2008-like situation.”
“Such dictatorial ways to please RSS will only drag Kashmir, which witnessed bloodbath in the past, to the edge,” he said, adding, “The onus of any reaction from people of Kashmir will lie on the government.”
