No peace, just graveyard silence in J&K: Apni Party

Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir has no peace but just “graveyard silence”, Apni Party president Syed Altaf Bukhari claimed Saturday, as he accused the BJP of selling the Union Territory’s resources to outsiders, all of whom, he asserted, will have to “wind up and go” after a popular government is formed.

He also accused the BJP of using Kashmiri migrant pandits as an “election material”, and invited the community to live with them in their homes before the party ensures their re-settlement “People are worried as policies are making their lives miserable… the youth are suffering and they are being driven towards taking to arms or drugs,” Bukhari told reporters here.

Flanked by senior party colleagues and former ministers, the Apni Party president said over 10 lakh people are directly or indirectly linked to the mining sector but leases were granted to contractors from outside. “These are our resources and should have been reserved for people of J&K.

When there will be a popular government, all of them have to wind up and go from here,” he said.  (PTI)