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SRINAGAR: Opposition National Conference on Thursday asked the Centre to reconsider the package announced for the rehabilitation of flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir and called for a special session of state legislature to discuss the issue.
“Government of India should reconsider the package. This is wrong and it does not convey a good message to the people of Jammu and Kashmir. This is a Muslim-majority state and if the BJP government deals with the situation in this way, then it gives a wrong signal. The situation here is sending a wrong signal to people…of isolation and alienation,” NC General Secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar told reporters here.
Sagar said the state government should immediately convene a special session of the Assembly to discuss the issue and bring out a unanimous resolution in this regard.
“We ask the government, if they have any conscience left and feel the pain of the people, to immediately convene a special session of the Assembly to have a thorough debate over the package and sent a unanimous resolution of the state legislature to the Centre highlighting the demand, the necessity and the requirement of people,” he said.
“This is absolutely necessary as this is a big issue. All the parties in the Assembly should rise above party politics sincerely,” he added.
The NC leader expressed “surprise” over the remarks of state Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu who said he was satisfied with the package.
“We are surprised. He is saying he is satisfied. But the other PDP leader (Tariq Karra) has advised the party to part ways with the BJP. The finance minister has humiliated the people of the state. What is there in the package for the people affected by the floods” he said.
