ANC threatens to approach SC against fresh highway restrictions
Srinagar: ANC senior Vice president Muzzafar Shah Tuesday said the party will not hesitate to go for PIL in the Supreme Court in case the highway restrictions were not reversed.
Shah while talking to media persons in Srinagar said it was a Kashmiri Muslim “whom the Lord Shiva trusted to show his cave to the world and it is the same Kashmiri Muslim who is being very ill-treated by the powers that be”.
He questioned the wisdom of the Central Government, in particular the Home Minister Amit Shah, his security and intelligence apparatus and J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik for ordering “harsh measures of restrictions in movement on millions of people for the 46 days Yatra period”.
“Do Amit Shah and Governor Malik remember that the Kashmiri Muslims have been welcoming Yatris and carrying them on their shoulders safely since centuries for the Holy Darshan of the Lord Shiva? Is this how you repay them by making them a suspect in the eyes of the HinduBrethren?” he asked.
Shah further stated that not only the common man, but the entire Tourism and the Horticulture sector, the back bone of the economy of the state that was suffering humongous loses due to “such ill advised decision”.
“The tourist in Kashmir today is facing the same problem as is the common Kashmiri. Prime Minister Narender Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and Governor Satya Pal Malik will have to compensate the losses of Tourism and the Horticulture sector for such decisions that too in the peak of the tourist season,” he said.
He said if the decision was not reversed, “Then it would be better to close all schools, business establishments, the entire tourist sector for the 46 days Yatra period”.
The ANC, he said, “will not hesitate to go for PIL in the Supreme Court in this situation”.
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