Congress-PDP coalition has lost right to rule in J

Srinagar, Oct 23 (UNI) The main opposition National Conference (NC) in Jammu and Kashmir today said the coalition government of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Congress has lost the right to rule as it had failed to discharge the primary duty of protecting the life and property of the people of the state.

''The coalition government has failed to discharge the basic duty of protecting the life and property of the people. It has lost the right to rule. Everybody in the state is feeling insecure,'' senior NC leader Abdul Rahim Rather told a news conference here.

He said the situation was getting out of control and the ruling coalition should seriously think if it deserved and has the right to rule over the people of Jammu and Kashmir.

''The coalition government has no guts and capability to control the situation,'' the NC leader said, adding it was the primary responsibility of any government to protect the life and property of the people of the state.

Mr Rather, who is the Leader of the Opposition in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, criticised the Congress-PDP coalition government for ''alarming increase'' in human rights violations in the state in the recent past, saying nobody feels secure in this atmosphere of ''catch and kill''.

''It is painful that human rights violations are alarmingly on the rise in the state. Nobody feels secure in this atmosphere of catch and kill. It is surprising to see that those at the helm of affairs are acting as mute spectators,'' he added.

The NC leader said the hollow slogans of protection of human rights abuses could hardly assuage the hurt feelings of the people.

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