‘Revelation by Industries Minister is expression of arrogance of power’
Chairman Hurriyat (G) Syed Ali Geelani Tuesday said at a time when entire Kashmiri nation is protesting against the implementation of new industrial policy, the shocking revelation by Industries Minister is an open expression of ‘arrogance of power’ and it has also come to fore that the new anti-people industrial policy which is being discussed on and off assembly already stands implemented and is working on the ground.
Expressing shock over the startling revelation of the Minister for Industries and Commerce Chandra Prakash Ganga that 545 industrial units have already been established by the non-locals in Jammu & Kashmir, Geelani cautioned the ‘RSS backed’ Mehbooba Mufti government that if public reservations regarding the new industrial policy are not cleared, the separatist leadership will come up with a joint strategy to counter this move.
In a statement issued here Geelani said the revelation by Ganga has confirmed that the discussions going on in the assembly on the new industrial policy and which lasted for many days was just a ‘drama’ and waste of time for both the public and the house. According to the written reply of the minister, the policy which was being introduced in the state has already been implemented and the people were all in dark.
Geelani however said, “It is not a new thing for the Kashmiri nation but it has been routine since 1947. At first India controlled this land and then gradually started to erode the special position of this state which was granted to it by the India itself.”
Geelani said it is quite obvious and expected from India but the role of local politicians is more ‘criminal and condemnable who merely for their petty interests are selling out every single asset of the state to the New Delhi.’
He said nobody from Sheikh Abdullah to Farooq Abdullah and from Mufti Sayeed to Mehbooba Mufti is exception to it and all of them have proved to be the merchants of the national interests of the Kashmiris. ‘These are faithless people having no religion.’
Geelani reminded that when late Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah ‘betrayed’ the innocent Kashmiri people and accepted the Chief Minister post against his plebiscite movement, he came up with the land grants bill in the same assembly which was favouring that the state land be given on 90 year lease to the non-locals.
“At that time while opposing the said bill, I told him that after 90 years nobody among us will be alive so who will take this land back from them and who will be responsible for it,” Geelani said in a statement issued here.
Chairman Hurriyat (G) said since then whoever ruled Kashmir tried to weaken the special status Jammu and Kashmir. Demanding rollback of the new industrial policy, Geelani said if the government doesn’t shun its rigidity in this regard, “we will be forced to counter this policy.”
