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| PDP condemns attack on Rouf Bhat | | Cautions government against consequences of inaction |
Srinagar, June 14 (Scoop News) – Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has strongly condemned the attack on its Srinagar district Vice President Ab Rouf Bhat whose car was destroyed near his solina residence last night. The attack came hours after Rouf had convened a meeting of party workers at his residence after which some of the workers held a peaceful demonstration againt the Chief Minister’s close associate Davinder Singh Rana for his baseless allegations against the PDP.
Rouf’s car was completely destroyed and given the circumstances of the incident it looks abvious that the attackers had some kind of a government cover as otherwise such an attack could not have been possible in densely populated place like solina.
The spokesman of the party said that immediately after learning about the attack senior party leaders led by Syed Mohd Altaf Bukhari visited Rouf’s house and conveyed solidarity of the party and its leaders to him. The spokesman said that immediate meeting of the party district committee Srinagar was held in which it was resolved that party would continue its fight against the repression of the ruling party which enjoys the patronage of the government agencies.
Demanding a thorough and prompt investigation of the incident for which an FIR has been already lodged in police station Shergarhi the spokesman said the government would not be allowed to hush up this case and it will have to come out with full facts. The spokesman said that if the government fails to immediately nab the culprits the responsibility for any consequences would squarely fall on the government.
The party also reiterated its demand to conduct investigation into the business deals of Davinder Singh Rana during his tenure as the Advisor to Chief Minister. The Spokesman said the unusual performance of the business owned by Davinder Singh Rana are already a subject of public debate and unless the government conduct a probe and come out clean on the subject, fingures could be raised even against the Chief Minister for the obvious proximity between the two. He said the phenomenal rise reportedly recorded by Rana in last five years in his business has by many quarters been attributed to the unlimited powers that he enjoyed as the advisor to Chief Minister.
Referring to the complaints of monopoly assuemed by Rana on the cable networks of Jammu & Kashmir the spokesman said there have been many protests by other cable operators about the wrong practices adopted by Rana. The spokesman said that it was also reported that the set-top boxes provided recently to the consumers are being sold at exorbitant prices to directly benefit Rana and the government has not taken any notice of these complaints.
The monopoly created by Rana over the business, according to the spokesman has hit the cable channels of Kashmir hard as they are not been allowed to run news and current affairs programme. This is in stark contrast to the freedom of programme schedules enjoyed by Rana for his Take 1 channel in Jammu. The spokesman said this matter would be taken with the government of India to enforce discipline in the cable networking to provide a level play field to all service providers in the state.
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