Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Senior leader and Former Minister Mr. Ajay Kumar Sadhotra, has strongly condemned the killing of BJP workers. He said thistrend of political killings is very dangerous and already totally crippled democratic system in Jammu and Kashmir shall fully collapse.

Instead of giving proper protection and security to the workers of main stream Political Parties, in order to create atmosphere for democratic process in Jammu andKashmir the recent statement of Chief Secretary depicts arrogance and anti-democracy mindset of the present dispensation who doesn’t want to encourage political and democratic process to take off in Jammu and Kashmir, added Mr Sadhotra.

MrSadhotra said 35-40%, about 13000 vacant seats of Sarpanchs, Panchs, speaks of how the present dispensation conducted Panchayat Elections and crying as its tallest achievement from the roof top.

National Conference leader added that the statement shows ignorance of the Chief Secretary on the then prevailing conditions during 1990 to 1996, peak of the Militancy.How the democratically elected Government headed by Dr. Farooq Abdullah (1996-2002)did reconstruction of the damaged infrastructure and improved the securityscenario in the state. Schools were burnt, Bridges were burnt, Hospitals wereburnt, Acute shortage of teachers in the Schools. Recruitment of teachersthrough Rehbar-e-Taleem scheme was started to ensure every school gets Teachers.There were no PRIs. Only in 2000 and 2011, Panchayat Elections were held underthe leadership of Dr. Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah respectively. During2009-2014 under the leadership of Omar Abdullah, many steps were taken forpublic welfare and Acts like Public Service Guarantee Act, Right to InformationAct, Creation of Vigilance Commission and so many other steps were taken tohave transparent, corruption free and responsive system.. 

Heasserted that bureaucracy is no substitute to democracy and asked the presentdispensation not to destroy hard earned democratic system and peace by blamegame, ignoring and under estimating Main Stream Political Parties of Jammu andKashmir. Our Country is a largest democracy in the world. Such statements arenot acceptable in the most sensitive and bordering Jammu and Kashmir.