Srinagar: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Friday said the Jammu and Kashmir administration’s decision to blacklist acontractors for their alleged links to militants was “arbitrary” and appealed to Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to reconsider it.
In a letter to Sinha, she said the previous governments in J and K had created a rehabilitation policy for such people with the purpose to ensure their acceptance amongst society with dignity and remove the stigma of “association”.
“I’d like to draw your attention to the tragic consequences of the administration’s recent decision to blacklist contractors. It is being carried out in an arbitrary manner on the erroneous assumption of direct or indirect links with militants,” Mehbooba wrote in the letter.
She said a cursory glance at the list reveals that most of the contractors were not even militants to begin with.
“The fifty-odd, who were, have shunned militancy a long time ago whereas the majority of those disqualified are related through ties of blood but are not involved in any form of violent activity,” she said.
The former chief minister said the previous elected governments in J and K successfully created a rehabilitation policy for such persons.
