STATE TIMES NEWS
SRINAGAR: Governor N.N Vohra on Sunday appealed to the public that the restoration of peace and normalcy should be our first and most immediate priority.
He urged the leaders of all the mainstream political parties in the State to ensure against delay in commencing a purposeful dialogue to vigorously pursue a sustained political initiative in Jammu and Kashmir, with the support of New Delhi as has already been assured.
The political leadership, he said, is facing a momentous challenge of taking every required initiative to reach out and win the hearts and minds of our youth and that this endeavour must be very strongly supported by the entire administrative machinery in the State.
Greeting the people on the auspicious occasion of country’s 70th Independence Day, the Governor observed that our liberal democratic framework allows unfettered opportunity for the pursuit of widely diverging ideologies. Side by side, our pluralistic foundations encourage and enable the resolution of all manner of differences through dialogues and discussions instead of through confrontations and violence. The Governor said that he was deeply saddened by the continuing disturbances in the Valley in the past several weeks which had led to several dozen young men, and even women and children, getting killed and seriously injured. He said that due to the daily incidents of stone-pelting and recurring attacks by protesting groups on the uniformed forces and their establishments it has left thousands of civilians and Security Forces personnel seriously injured. The Governor observed that it is distressing that our enormous responsibility to look after, educate and groom our bright youth and enable them to compete and succeed in every walk of life to emerge as future leaders who would take the State to its rightful place in the country has been paralysed due to the continuing disturbances.
