Mufti Govt reviving Ikhwan rule: Ali Sagar
NC delegation to meet Guv
Opposition National Conference (NC) Monday said Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed-led PDP-BJP coalition government was reviving Ikhwan rule in the State and a high-level party delegation would meet Governor Narendra Nath Vohra over the issue of mysterious killings in Sopore.
“Ikhwan rule has been revived in the State,” NC General Secretary, Ali Muhammad Sagar said addressing a meeting of NC leaders at party’s Nawai Subh headquarters in Srinagar.In mid nineties, government backed a group of renegades and surrendered militants locally known as Ikhwanis or ‘Naabedhis’, who unleashed a reign of terror on the people.
Ikhwanis were a pro-government militia that operated in Kashmir and were paid by the Army, paramilitary forces and Jammu and Kashmir Police to counter militant groups.
They earlier operated under the militant organization ‘Ikhwaan-ul-Muslimeen’.
During the meeting, NC decided that a high-level delegation of the party would meet Governor N N Vohra and take up the issue of mysterious killing of civilians in Sopore with him as government had failed to explain who the mastermind of these attacks was.
“The silence exhibited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed over Sopore killings is part of the two parties’ alliance agenda,” Sagar said.
He said Mufti and his government needed to clarify who was behind the attacks on the civilians.
Four civilians were killed in mysterious circumstances in a week in the separatist hub of Sopore, the hometown of Hurriyat Conference (G) Chairman Syed Ali Geelani.
Sagar said despite the gruesome killings, CM had not shown any seriousness to trace out the killers and explain the game plan behind the attacks.
The meeting of the NC was attended by party’s Kashmir province president, Nasir Aslam Wani; senior leader Abdul Rahim Rather; north zone president, Muhammad Akbar Lone; central zone president, Ali Muhammad Dar; district president Srinagar, Peer Afaaq Ahmad and district president Baramaulla, Javed Ahmad Dar besides other NC activists.
Sagar said Modi and Mufti, who is also the chief of the unified headquarters, should explain why both the governments – Government of India and State government were silent over the issue of Sopore killings.
“They need to explain why these killings started after the statement of Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar,” he said
On his visit to the State, Parrikar had said the government would meet “terror with terror”.
Sagar questioned whether it was part of that strategy of meeting terror with terror.
“Government of India and State government should explain who the agencies involved in the killings are and why the government was not taking any stand over it,” he said.
NC provisional president Kashmir, Nasir Aslam Wani told NC leaders that though Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed had completed 100 days in office, law and order situation in the State was going from bad to worse.
“There is no sense of security among the people particularly among the people of Sopore,” he said. “We will do whatever we can to raise the issue of mysterious killings of civilians.”
Wani said the chief minister as well as the government was silent over the mysterious killings and that they should come forward and explain to whether militants or any agency was carrying these killings.
