People's Democratic Party (PDP) patron,Mufti Mohammad Sayeed,has said that Jammu and Kashmir government is pathetically helpless in safeguarding life and dignity of people. They have proved totally unequal to the task,PDP patron,told a meeting of the party workers from Jammu district. Condemning the unabated and brazen killing of innocent citizens,Mufti said the Government is incompetent in dealing with the situation and was deliberately trying to recreate the pre-2002 atmosphere of terror and insecurity. Sayeed said that party is again creating a fear psychosis ahead of the Lok Sabha polls to reap the benefits of low voter turn-out. Mufti said the killing of people in the state have started damaging the atmosphere of reconciliation that the PDP had painstakingly built over the past six years. He said loss of life,the latest being the murder of a carpenter at Khaigam Pulwama,is only more cruel aspect of human rights violations by the state apparatus. The incident at Karan Nagar in which respectable citizens were beaten up on a flimsy ground cannot be tolerated in any decent society he said. Reiterating his demand for immediate scrapping of armed forces special powers act (AFSPA) and handing over the internal security to state police,Mufti said that this alone,could ensure dignified life for the citizens of state who have pinned great hopes in democratic process and voted in elections as never before. PDP patron said that it doesnt infuse any confidence among the people to see their Chief Minister petitioning one Central Minister after the other and security force officers to do the favour of an inquiry in such incidents. Soldier and his gun should cease to be the only face of great Indian democracy in Kashmir, he cautioned and stressed the need for empowering civil society institutions in the State. PDP patron said Omar Abdullah's government was defined by incompetence on governance front as well. The government was trying to run itself without any programme,which is not possible. Government had reneged on all its pre poll promises,it wanted to escape future accountability by refusing to frame or divulge its coalition agenda. Apparently,power seems to be the only ideology they follow, Mufti said. PDP leaders Murtaza Khan,Dhaman Bhasin,Ved Mahajan,T S Bajwa,Shanti Devi,Manjeet Singh,Sayeed Asghar Hussain,Surjeet Kaur and Advocate A K Sawhney were present in the meeting.
