“Kashmir Elections Never Fair”
SRINAGAR: A senior Indian politician has expressing deep shock over the killing of four youth by paramilitary CRPF in south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Saturday.
Member Parliament and President of the Janta Dal (United) party, Sharad Yadav has said there is “not an iota of doubt” in this fact that Kashmir people have been and are being “immensely harassed and suppressed.”
“Who is responsible for disturbance here? The promises made by New Delhi were not fulfilled. Former Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru had promised Kashmiri people that they would lead a respectable life and those promises have been broken. Even Indira-Abdullah Accord was not implemented in true spirit,” he said in Srinagar, according to Current News Service.
Yadav also said it is a fact that elections have never been fair in Kashmir.
“Rigging takes place at ease and those people are being elected whom people detest. In such conditions, how we can expect that peace would prevail in Kashmir,” Yadav said, adding that he would launch an agitation “if next Assembly Elections would be rigged”.
“I tell you with authority that there would have been no militancy if elections had not been rigged (in 1897).”
The JDU President said that funds that are being made available to the State by the Central Government are being misused.
“Huge chunk of funds go to the pockets of elite political and administrative class. These political leaders have amassed so much wealth that even remaining outside Power, they could enjoy to their fullest.”
