NC expresses concern over growing 'intolerance'

Opposition National Conference in Jammu and Kashmir today expressed concern over the "growing intolerance" in the country and the state and said it would not be a "silent spectator" on the issue.
"National Conference had already made its stance clear and stood by people who had dared to voice their feelings against growing intolerance in India.
"Anyone who dares to speak against the hostility and mistrust being bred in India by leadership, of which Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is a part, is being hounded and harassed. We will not sit as silent spectators as this happens," Provincial President and former minister Nasir Aslam Wani said at a meeting here.

Several senior leaders and legislators attended the meeting which was convened at Nawai Subah headquarters of the party to finalise arrangements in connection with the commemorating of the birth anniversary of National Conference founder and former Chief Minister Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah which falls on December 5.
Voicing dismay over the "growing atmosphere of hostility" and its subsequent ramifications in the state, Wani asked the PDP-led government in the state about the steps it had taken to ensure safety of truckers plying on Srinagar-Jammu national highway in the aftermath of the recent attacks which left one trucker dead and two others injured.

"Government should come clean on what was being done to ensure that Kashmiri truckers, students and workers living and travelling outside Kashmir are safe. What have they decided to do about the recent attacks on truckers in Srinagar-Jammu highway?" he asked.
The party release said the meeting unanimously decided that it would work towards fighting "divisive and communal elements" and expose their "nefarious designs".