Mobilenews24x7 Bureau (Exclusive)
5 Incidents in a Week Show Security Situation Still Fragile in Kashmir that cannot be hidden by an expensive urban facelift.
And the propaganda that is being demonstrated by signage and hoardings do not sync with the ground realities.
Although the cool city wears a colour of riots but the gun trotting cops reveal a different inner things. The city will be hosting a G20 tourism working group meeting next week as the local administration pulls out all the stops to make the high-level event a resounding success. Of the total 215 G20 meetings being held across the country, only four pertain to promoting tourism.
“Some have questioned why a G20 meeting is being held in a picturesque, prelapsarian corner in the far north of the country that is given to civil strife and political tensions” said Naseer Ahmed, Srinagar based senior journalist with an expertise in terrorism .
There is no need to say that four years since the Modi government scrapped Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, it has escalated a string of centralisation campaigns in the erstwhile state with far-reaching consequences.
“Many aspects of those measures have ridden roughshod over the imbricated political realities of that place that continue to tether regional tensions with international geopolitics” added Ahmed.
Not to be economical with the truth, that the BJP has handpicked lieutenant governors to approve them as opposed to an elected government that would’ve found itself rather hard-pressed to take steps that are likely to antagonise the voters to whom it is accountable
“There is no sincere effort to iron out the troubles through a democratic process and instead in Kashmir there is a visibly high dose of public relationship” quipped Naseer Ahmed
“Just the expensive urban makeover is not going to make over the terrible deficits and save the common men of Srinagar from being pushed to the edge” Ahmed goes on to add.
It is everywhere a massive security drive troubling people in the day to day life through frisking and an unfriendly disposition by cops.
