New Delhi: Taking a swing at the Centre over the prevailing unrest in the Valley, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said the growing crisis in Jammu and Kashmir has come to represent the colossal failure of the NDA Government.
In her opening address to a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the top decision-making body of the party, Gandhi said, “The crisis in Jammu & Kashmir has come to represent the colossal failure of this government.”
She said the insensitive handling of the situation in the Valley by both the State and the Central governments are systematically alienating and antagonizing the local population especially the youth.
“A divisive agenda is being followed which has undone years of goodwill and progress. A large number of jawans and civilians have lost their lives or have been injured,” she said.
She further advised the ruling regime to addresses the growing crisis situation in the Valley and to correct its flawed approach to restore normalcy in order to regain the trust of the people.
“I have asked a small group of colleagues under the chairmanship of Dr. Manmohan Singh to keep abreast of the situation there,” she added.
Sonia Gandhi also slammed the Modi government, saying there is a brazen campaign to straitjacket the whole country into a regressive and narrow-minded world view.
The Modi government has just completed three years in office. Where there was harmony, there is discord. Where there was tolerance, there is provocation. Where there was relative calm, as in Kashmir, there is growing confrontation, tension and fear. Where there was economic potential, there is stagnation. Where there was rich diversity, there is a brazen campaign to straitjacket the whole country into a regressive and narrow-minded world-view, she said.
Divisive issues are being whipped up, and there is an assault on livelihoods and food habits of those who follow different tenets and beliefs. This government is using the power of the state to stifle voices that express different thoughts and ideas, or speak out for alternative policies and philosophies. Whether it is politicians, institutions, students, civil society or the media, there is growing intolerance and active persecution of divergent voices in blatant disregard of the law of the land.
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