Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Tuesday said the people of the state are the primary party to the issue of J&K.
NC general secretary Haji Ali Muhammad Sagar whileaddressing series of worker’s conventions at Tral and Avantipura said that NewDelhi has always been reluctant to accept the ground situation in Kashmir. “Ourparty leadership has maintained that the issue of our state is political innature that can only be solved through time bound and result oriented dialoguewith all the stakeholders. Seeing the problem of Kashmir through the prism ofsecurity has failed to lead the successive governments at center to a properunderstanding of issues on ground. The condition in Kashmir cannot be improvedby the use of excessive force; shutting one’s eyes to the issue won’t helpeither. The drawn out conflict has created vested interests in the state,trapping the valley in an unending cycle of death and destruction. NationalConference has always been a votary of dialogue between the Centre and the variedstakeholders in the state,” adding, “our party has been demanding restorationof autonomy to the state as it existed before 1953.”
The NC provincial president Nasir AslamWani while addressingthe worker’s conventions said that the state was plagued with dire developmentdeficit and unaccountability. “Having a popularly elected government is thebasic and the absolute right of people. The need of the hours calls for having a democratically electedgovernment in the state. The challenges our state is facing need a strongwilled government to tackle with; it is the NC under the leadership of OmarSahib that boasts a panacea for state’s problems. Not even a single Watt ofelectricity was added to the pool of state’s energy sector since the BJP-PDPhad their hands on the reins of power.”
Among others south zone President Dr. Bashir Veeri, PeerMuhammad Hussain, GhulamMohiUd Din Mir, Muhammad Ashraf Bhat, Javaid RahimBhat, minority wing organizer Jagjeet Singh Azad also addressed the workers andimpressed upon them to increase their engagement with the public.