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Less participation of people in election warrants introspection: Tarigami

Less participation of people in election warrants introspection: Tarigami
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Srinagar: Srinagar: Senior CPI (M) leader and former legislator Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami on Tuesday said that the low voter turnout in the parliamentary elections in the valley “warrants introspection from the political leaders, particularly from those who are at the helm of affairs in Delhi”.
The former MLA from Kulgam assembly segment of south Kashmir said that the response of people in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections was “not so encouraging”.
Referring to the crackdown by government forces on youth ahead of voting in south Kashmir, Tarigami said that the “indiscriminate arrest of youth across Kashmir and particularly in southern districts of the Valley in the recent times will erode people’s trust in the government further and widen the gulf which would be difficult to bridge”.
“Muscular security policy has neither worked in the past nor there are any chances of it yielding any results in future. It has only added the complexities of the situation,” he said.
Tarigami said the deepening political uncertainty in Kashmir had been “compounded due to the disastrous policies of the BJP government in Delhi.”
“Kashmir is in constant chaos and the new realities are being sketched under the shadow of guns and the BJP’s aggressive Kashmir policy,” he added.
He said the centre’s policy of “viewing everything through the prism of security and with rabid ultra nationalistic overtones has compounded the problem further”.
“What is urgently required is to shun the path of confrontation and repression and initiative a credible process of talks with all stakeholders,” he said in a statement.
The current unrest in the valley, Tarigami said, was the “result of deep and massive alienation caused by a long history of broken commitments, repression, socio-economic woes and denial of justice to the people”.
Tarigami said that hundreds of people, especially youth, were languishing in jails and have been detained under Public Safety Act (PSA) and Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
“In some cases even after court’s quashing the PSA, detained remain in prison as the police book them under the UAPA,” he added.
The UAPA, he alleged, “is being highly misused and it needs immediate review. The cases of those who have been detained under the PSA and UAPA need to be examined immediately.”


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