Forced mobilisation of govt employees for PM’s rally in Srinagar as J&K admin operating like BJP pracharaks: M Y Tarigami
regional political parties in Kashmir alleged that a major section of the audience for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally in Srinagar on Thursday consisted of government employees directed to attend the meeting by the administration.
The leaders accused the administration in J&K of acting as ‘BJP pracharaks’ and mobilising people for the PM’s rally.
Former chief minister of J&K Mehbooba Mufti while sharing a video on social media wrote that the government employees were ‘herded’ at 5 am in sub zero temperatures into vehicles at Budgam bus stand and ferried to PM’s rally. “Disheartening to see employees being forcibly mobilised to paint a pretty picture that all is well post 2019 and that people here are celebrating their own collective disempowerment and humiliation,” she wrote. The PDP leader said that this stands contrary to earlier visits by previous PMs like Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Dr Manmohan Singh at the peak of insurgency, when common people thronged to the venues with great enthusiasm and returned with hope in their hearts.
“But this time Kashmiris know that everything spoken at Bakshi stadium will be to showcase the so called benefits of illegal abrogation of Article 370 akin to putting salt to their wounds. This visit is only meant to address and drum up support amongst BJPs core constituency in the rest of India for the upcoming parliament elections,” she wrote.
Former minister and CPI (M) leader M Y Tarigami alleged that the administration, at all levels, is ‘operating akin to BJP Parachraks.’
