"National Conference will not hesitate to launch a long and sustained mass agitation over this issue (disbanding of VDCs) if the PDP-BJP alliance continues patronising the armed committees," party Chief Spokesperson Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi said.
Condemning the murder of a woman and her minor son allegedly by a VDC member in Rajouri district, Mehdi said the Jammu and Kashmir government would be "squarely responsible" for loss of innocent lives at the hands of the armed group if it fails to disband these committees.
"We condemn these murders in the strongest terms and demand the culprits be brought to the book without any delay and without an iota of patronising and political shielding," Mehdi said.
The NC chief spokesperson also alleged that the PDP-BJP coalition was using the Village Defence Committees as "political militia" to "silence dissent".
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"An atmosphere of insecurity has been created to further sinister political agenda in the state.
Having been exposed as a "complete failure", the PDP-BJP government is now using VDCs to exert a "repressive, extra-judicial influence" on the people through such tactics.
Meanwhile, hardliner Hurriyat Conference headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani also criticised the Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh for reportedly refusing to disband the VDCs.
"Also, to blame external forces and vested interests
alone would be a dangerous diversion that takes us away from the basis, for not only such unrests and agitations in Kashmir but also a prolonged political turmoil that has resulted in the loss of thousands of lives," the NC memorandum said.
Highlighting the handling of situation in the aftermath of killing of Wani, the National Conference leaders said when there was a need for dealing the situation in a political and humane manner, the situation was further compounded by contradictory statements by Ministers and elected representatives belonging to the ruling dispensation.
It said the judicial probe should also ascertain "if excessive force was used against protestors in the Valley with an aim to initiate legal proceedings in cases where excessive use of force is proven. Timely and visible action should be taken in such instances."
The memorandum said by blocking telecommunication with the "purpose of cracking down on criticism of the Government and growing dissent against the administration has resulted in untold miseries and suffering in the Valley".
"The clampdown on mobile telecommunications in the Valley continues without any indication of restoration of services by the Government. This too has fuelled the sentiment of alienation and isolation in Kashmir," it said.
The NC also expressed gratitude to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and the Home Minister for promptly responding to Omar's appeal to send eye-specialists to the Valley to treat hundreds of cases of young men and women, who sustained "potentially handicapping, lethal injuries due to the unrestricted and wanton use of pellet guns on protestors."
It sought all possible medical and financial assistance in the treatment of civilians who sustained grievous injuries, including specialised treatment outside the state.
While expressing strong condemnation of a "clear pattern" of excessive use of force on protestors across the Valley, the delegation informed the Home Minister that NC wasted no time in rising over partisan politics by reaching out to the state government "to lend our support to help and minimise the loss of young lives" despite having serious reservations about the state government's "inhumane, insensitive and chaotic response" to the situation in the Valley.
The delegation informed the Home Minister that the party's working President Omar Abdullah had made a timely and prompt public appeal to the Chief Minister to lead a political effort to normalise the situation in the Valley.
Justifying its stand to boycott the All-Party Meeting, the delegation said the party did not want to be part of an elaborate "theatrical charade by the Chief Minister to compensate for her shocking lack of a sense of responsibility to deal with the situation in the State.
"We remain committed to helping the aggrieved and affected people and also playing an active role in any over- arching effort to normalize the situation in the Valley."
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Meanwhile, talking to reporters outside, Omar said there was a need to take some long-term measures to address the issue of Kashmir.
"We all are concerned over the prevailing situation. The situation has been bad in the Valley since the last 16 days. More than 40 people have lost their life and thousands are injured. We put forward some points before the Union Home Minister and also told him that there is a need to take some long-term measures," he said.
"The basic issue is political and till the time we do not accept this, it will be impossible to find a solution to it," he said.
Omar said the Union Home Minister's response was "good and positive".
"His response has always been positive. I met him in Delhi as well and we had a long conversation and the response was good and positive," he said.
The NC leader said his party boycotted the all-party meet conveyed by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti as there was "no fun in talking to someone who had proven herself as powerless".
"She (Mehbooba) proved herself powerless by her own statements, that she knew nothing about the prevailing situation.
"So, what was the fun in talking to her? First it was said that she knew about Burhan (Wani's encounter), then they said she did not know. Then, they said the Prime Minister is the one to stop the use of excessive force and not the chief minister. Then after banning the media, they said they did not know about it," he said.
"So, we decided that we will not take part in that meeting," Omar said.