After an all-party meeting here on Saturday, MP and National Conference leader Dr. Farooq Abdullah said, “We will go to Delhi to appraise about the prevailing desperation in Jammu and Kashmir to the national leaders and raise the issue in the Parliament so that a solution to the problem could be hammered out”.
Abdullah was speaking to media persons after the all-party meeting that he had convened here to discuss the burning issues, including contract to a tainted company to hold exams for government jobs, demolition drive and imposition of property tax.
Abdullah said that the leaders from J&K will also meet the election commission to seek holding of assembly elections as the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah have been claiming that the situation here was peaceful and a meeting of G-20 will be held in Kashmir. If the situation was normal then what was the hitch in the election commission holding assembly elections when delimitation of constituencies has already been completed.
He said that the next step of action will be decided after returning from Delhi and briefing the opposition parties about the deliberations at the national capital.
Abdullah said we will stress the restoration of statehood and immediate assembly elections. J&K is without an assembly since 2018 that has created a vacuum. The present dispensation is not a people’s government and has been imposed by Delhi. The Lt. Governor or officers of the administration do not have to face the people. They make a law during the night and implement it the next day.
Abdullah said that the government claims to have launched an attack on corruption but has itself given a contract for holding exams for government jobs to a tainted company.
He said the youth was disappointed as no jobs have been offered to them by the government that had announced to create 50,000 jobs.
He said that only the assembly has the power to impose property tax.
Abdullah said India is the crown of India and will always remain so. He also stressed that J&K is a part and parcel of India and we want it to develop and progress at a fast pace.
He criticized the government for misusing CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) to pin down opposition leaders.