Soz welcomes Mirwaiz’s statement

Senior Congress leader and former union minister Prof Saifuddin Soz on Saturday said that encroachment of water bodies and illegal constructions on the banks of river Jhelum are a cause of concern.

 In a statement hereSoz said, ” Taking a break from usual political expressions, Mirwaiz UmarFarooq has rightly blamed both the government and the people of Kashmir forworking against the nature, causing misery to the people by way of the floodsthat ravaged Kashmir in 2014. Mirwaiz has rightly lamented that the long handsin the society have indulged in encroachments of water bodies, all around.

   

Mirwaiz has also made a pertinent point that the governmentand the Srinagar Municipal Corporation have remained silent spectators while somany illegal constructions were raised in Srinagar and elsewhere within theknowledge of law enforcing machinery.”

“I congratulate Mirwaiz Umar Farooq for his forthrightstatement in public interest and also invite him and other members of largeKashmir society to agitate against land mafia, particularly, the long-handedencroachers who have almost finished our small lakes like Khushalsar, Gilsar,Hokarsar, Nigeen, Anchar, Brar-e-Nambal, not to speak of the world famous DalLake.”

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