PDP legislators express concern over Kashmir situation

Expressing serious concerns on the continuing situation in the state, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) legislators alleged that the state government was choking their voices in the Assembly.
The legislators said frequent curfew and other coercive measures like nocturnal raids and indiscriminate arrests, manifested the government's policy to suppress people's desire for free and dignified life.
After denying the basic right to express, the government is acting on a vicious objective of crippling the people in Kashmir, they alleged.
Expressing shock that the process of peace and reconciliation has been negated only to create a situation conducive for manipulations, they recalled how the government for over the past four years, created uncertain situations time and again, from the Shopian rape incident and murder of two women to the killing and arrest of youth in 2010, till the recent incidents of violence.

Use of bullets, pellet guns, chilly grenades, curfew and crackdowns have been made a routine, the members said, adding that these issues were repeatedly raised by them in the Assembly.
"But unfortunately the government made a mockery of the Assembly by expressing its helplessness to address people's problems", a PDP spokesman said.
This diabolical attitude of the state government forced the PDP to boycott the Assembly session, the spokesman added.