By PTI
RAJOURI/JAMMU: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday hit again at Lt Governor Manoj Sinha over his remarks that earlier governments in Jammu and Kashmir offered jobs to terrorists and their households, saying this “is not our tradition” however giving employment to “hooligans” may need been a customized in Uttar Pradesh.
“LG sahab has come from Uttar Pradesh and was probably speaking about his experience there. There might have been a tradition to provide jobs to mafia and hooligans in Uttar Pradesh but that is not our tradition,” the previous chief minister stated in Rajouri when requested by reporters about his assertion at a operate in Jammu on Monday.
Mehbooba additionally attacked the BJP, alleging it has created a concern psychosis in Jammu and Kashmir by making random arrests and is utilizing the identical coverage in the remainder of the nation to silence the voice of the Opposition.
In a veiled assault on the National Conference (NC), the Congress and the PDP, Lt Governor (LG) Sinha on Monday stated earlier governments had offered jobs to terrorists and their members of the family, whereas his administration has made the recruitment course of clear to make sure jobs are given to meritorious college students solely.
“What can they say who provided jobs to terrorists and their family members? They have no right to speak against the recruitment process when they have made one lakh back-door appointments. The time has gone when the jobs were selling in shops,” the LG had stated.
His feedback got here shut on the heels of NC president Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba just lately becoming a member of a candlelight vigil by job aspirants protesting towards the hiring of a beforehand blacklisted firm for conducting computer-based written assessments.
Earlier addressing a public assembly in Rajouri, Mehbooba claimed that “Jammu and Kashmir is going through a very difficult phase and people are frightened to speak on any issue”.
“Inflation has broken the back of people, unemployment is on the rise despite a promise by the BJP that it will create jobs for the youth after the abrogation of Article 370,” she stated.
The authorities in 2019 had abrogated the article, which granted particular standing to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, and bifurcated in into union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
Seeking individuals’s assist, Mehbooba stated she will do nothing on her personal.
“You have to join me and strengthen my voice to safeguard our identity and culture, land and jobs, besides fighting oppression,” she stated.
Defending her get together’s alliance with the BJP in 2014, Mehbooba stated PDP patron and former chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed took the troublesome resolution in view of the individuals’s mandate to the BJP in Jammu within the 2014 meeting elections.
“It was not the PDP which brought the BJP to power in J&K…The fact is that we implemented the party’s (PDP) agenda and did not allow the BJP to run its agenda,” she stated.
“Our efforts kept Article 370 safe and after the fall of the government, the BJP abrogated Article 370 which came like an earthquake, and its aftershocks are still rattling J&K in the form of various laws like property tax,” Mehbooba stated and added that the PDP didn’t enable the BJP to “bulldoze houses”.
The PDP “even withdrew cases against 12,000 youth who were jailed and shifted to outside jails (in places) such as Agra and Haryana after 2019”, the previous chief minister stated.
Referring to Hurriyat’s Syed Ali Shah Geelani not permitting entry to parliamentarians into his home in September 2016, she stated, “We tried to rope in the Hurriyat Conference for dialogue and wrote a letter to them to meet visiting parliamentarians but they shut their doors to the guests, giving a wrong message across the country.”
Mehbooba stated her authorities had additionally introduced a one-month unilateral ceasefire with militants however there was no constructive response from the opposite facet.
The PDP authorities had additionally cleared the decks for the regularisation of 60,000 informal labourers however nothing moved after the autumn of the federal government and they’re nonetheless on the roads, she claimed.
Referring to the slapping of Public Safety Act on politicians, together with herself in 2019, she stated “they dubbed us anti-national and did not allow the opposition to raise their voice”.
“They are utilising the same experiment in other parts of the country, jailing political leaders on the false charge of corruption,” she stated.
The PDP is not going to keep silent and can proceed to boost its voice towards the BJP authorities which is violating the structure and trampling democracy, Mehbooba stated.
RAJOURI/JAMMU: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday hit again at Lt Governor Manoj Sinha over his remarks that earlier governments in Jammu and Kashmir offered jobs to terrorists and their households, saying this “is not our tradition” however giving employment to “hooligans” may need been a customized in Uttar Pradesh.
“LG sahab has come from Uttar Pradesh and was probably speaking about his experience there. There might have been a tradition to provide jobs to mafia and hooligans in Uttar Pradesh but that is not our tradition,” the previous chief minister stated in Rajouri when requested by reporters about his assertion at a operate in Jammu on Monday.
Mehbooba additionally attacked the BJP, alleging it has created a concern psychosis in Jammu and Kashmir by making random arrests and is utilizing the identical coverage in the remainder of the nation to silence the voice of the Opposition.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
In a veiled assault on the National Conference (NC), the Congress and the PDP, Lt Governor (LG) Sinha on Monday stated earlier governments had offered jobs to terrorists and their members of the family, whereas his administration has made the recruitment course of clear to make sure jobs are given to meritorious college students solely.
“What can they say who provided jobs to terrorists and their family members? They have no right to speak against the recruitment process when they have made one lakh back-door appointments. The time has gone when the jobs were selling in shops,” the LG had stated.
His feedback got here shut on the heels of NC president Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba just lately becoming a member of a candlelight vigil by job aspirants protesting towards the hiring of a beforehand blacklisted firm for conducting computer-based written assessments.
Earlier addressing a public assembly in Rajouri, Mehbooba claimed that “Jammu and Kashmir is going through a very difficult phase and people are frightened to speak on any issue”.
“Inflation has broken the back of people, unemployment is on the rise despite a promise by the BJP that it will create jobs for the youth after the abrogation of Article 370,” she stated.
The authorities in 2019 had abrogated the article, which granted particular standing to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, and bifurcated in into union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
Seeking individuals’s assist, Mehbooba stated she will do nothing on her personal.
“You have to join me and strengthen my voice to safeguard our identity and culture, land and jobs, besides fighting oppression,” she stated.
Defending her get together’s alliance with the BJP in 2014, Mehbooba stated PDP patron and former chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed took the troublesome resolution in view of the individuals’s mandate to the BJP in Jammu within the 2014 meeting elections.
“It was not the PDP which brought the BJP to power in J&K…The fact is that we implemented the party’s (PDP) agenda and did not allow the BJP to run its agenda,” she stated.
“Our efforts kept Article 370 safe and after the fall of the government, the BJP abrogated Article 370 which came like an earthquake, and its aftershocks are still rattling J&K in the form of various laws like property tax,” Mehbooba stated and added that the PDP didn’t enable the BJP to “bulldoze houses”.
The PDP “even withdrew cases against 12,000 youth who were jailed and shifted to outside jails (in places) such as Agra and Haryana after 2019”, the previous chief minister stated.
Referring to Hurriyat’s Syed Ali Shah Geelani not permitting entry to parliamentarians into his home in September 2016, she stated, “We tried to rope in the Hurriyat Conference for dialogue and wrote a letter to them to meet visiting parliamentarians but they shut their doors to the guests, giving a wrong message across the country.”
Mehbooba stated her authorities had additionally introduced a one-month unilateral ceasefire with militants however there was no constructive response from the opposite facet.
The PDP authorities had additionally cleared the decks for the regularisation of 60,000 informal labourers however nothing moved after the autumn of the federal government and they’re nonetheless on the roads, she claimed.
Referring to the slapping of Public Safety Act on politicians, together with herself in 2019, she stated “they dubbed us anti-national and did not allow the opposition to raise their voice”.
“They are utilising the same experiment in other parts of the country, jailing political leaders on the false charge of corruption,” she stated.
The PDP is not going to keep silent and can proceed to boost its voice towards the BJP authorities which is violating the structure and trampling democracy, Mehbooba stated.
