Mufti Govt best for Nagpur, worst for Kashmir: KTMF

Srinagar, May 6(KMW): Terming the government action against flood-hit traders of Kashmir as “true face” of coalition government, the Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation President Haji Muhammad Yasin Khan said “Mufti Government is best to meet the interests of RSS headquartered in Nagpur and worst for Kashmir and its people.”

“It was to be peaceful agitation, our fundamental rights, against the government failure to rehabilitate the flood hit traders who lost everything to September 2014- flood. But instead of being bothered about mitigating the sufferings of the victims, the government action victimized us further,” Khan who along with other KTMF leaders was whisked away to Kothi Bagh Police Station said adding many shopkeepers were wounded in the police action.
Khan said “some BJP and PDP agents were trying to disrupt peaceful protests to meet their nefarious designs.” The KTMF also condemned the police action on media persons who were discharging their professional duties.
He said the government seriousness towards the flood hit people awaiting justice for eight months could be gauged from the fact that when it should have morally been busy discussing disaster statistics, the government top brass was dating Bollywood.
“Finance Minister who seems least interested on compensation to traders only knows the economy of improving Bollywood relations. But if Bollywood in his interest he should have not have befooled people that PDP-BJP alliance would bring economic package for trouble-hit Kashmir,” the KTMF said.
“The way government wants to scuttle the voice victims, it seems that we are heading towards Muhammad Shah Rangeela regime when only concern was entertainment at the cost of public miseries.”
“We the traders are not fighting any political war but pleading the simple case of humanity, which any sane and humane dispensation would acknowledge. But what happened today was that heart choking pepper gas was fired on us,” Khan who had fainted in the shelling said.
Khan said the KTMF would soon start campaigning for the future course of action. “We‘ll take all the concerned onboard and decide our future program because KTMF is committed to rehabilitation of traders till last of them even in some remote quarter of Kashmir is rehabilitated. And if this government thinks that through dilly-dallying the cause of traders will die unheard, it will prove biggest blunder on the part of coalition government,” Khan said.
“40 % of around 35000 traders are yet to revive while others have been struggling for revival. Eight months on even the City center of Lal Chowk continues to be gloomy while government wants to project a rosy image for nothing but personal interests.”
Meanwhile Khan reiterated that KTMF apart from flood-hit traders would also fight for the cause of flood hit residents. “In this hour of crisis we need not be divided. It’s our social, moral and religious duty to help each other and so KTMF is there for all the flood hit. We will start a public outreach program soon.”