Moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq today said implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in Jammu and Kashmir would "substantially reduce" the monthly quota of rations of every family and make them "vulnerable to malnutrition".
"Instead of providing proper amount of rice to the people (rice being the staple diet of Kashmiris), the government's move (to implement NFSA) has substantially reduced the monthly quota of every family and thus made them vulnerable to malnutrition," the Mirwaiz said addressing a function here.
He said people "are being denied adequate" rations, electricity, cooking gas and kerosene oil in the winter "which clearly speaks of an anti-people policy of the government".
"NFSA is another black law for Kashmiris imposed with the intention to make them suffer and increase their agonies... Kashmiris are facing political, economic and other problems while the government... Seems actually busy in creating more troubles and problems for the people," he said.
The Mirwaiz said the Hurriyat "cannot remain a mute spectator to the woes and agonies faced by the people because of the government's indifferent attitude towards their problems".
