Centre Has Destroyed Economy, Tourism In J&K

Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha and former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Ghulam Nabi Azad said today that the BJP-led Government at the Centre has completely destroyed business, economy, transport and entire trade of Jammu and Kashmir and demolished the claims of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah that everything was normal and peaceful in the Union Territory. In an interview given to a web portal, Azad said Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh regions (erstwhile) were popular in the entire country and they have been just rendered to a Union Territory.

He said the political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir including former Ministers have been detained in the MLAs hostel where there were no electricity, water and heating arrangements in the extreme winter.
“These political leaders were being treated like animals,” he alleged. Azad said the entire business, trade, transport and tourism of Jammu and Kashmir have been destroyed by the Central Government. He added that the loving people of Jammu and Kashmir have been finished economically and emotionally. “The State has been divided. There is a Lieutenant Governor now. Everything-be it tourism, politics, and trade-have finished. Dr. Farooq Abdullah and two other former Chief Ministers are in jails. The fourth former Chief Minister had to take the Supreme Court permission to visit Jammu and Kashmir,” the Congress leader said.