PDP slams govt over law and order

“NC-led government has lived up to the history of the ruling party in using state power to crush the aspirations of people. That is why it is no surprise that innocent and unarmed youth are brutally killed and put behind bars under the draconian Public Safety Act (PSA),” she alleged.

Instead of unleashing brute force on people,the government should try to solve their problems,she said.

Mehbooba alleged that even bare minimum requirements of ration and power were not available to common man.

“The government must understand the delicate nature of governance in the state as its failure to handle routine things has the potential of causing large scale alienation and crisis. That in fact is happening now.”

She said the forces that ruled the roost before 2002 seem to have re-emerged resulting in death and destruction at the hands of government forces and even “the unknown gunmen” who have a “historical bonding” with the NC.

She said it was manifest from the Padam Shri awarded to Ghulam Mohammed Mir,a former militant.