Meer Irfan
On Tuesday, the Chief of the People’s Democratic Party and former Chief Minister of Jammu Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti reached Aglar Shopian and joined the apple farmers protesting for the third consecutive day against the halting of their trucks on the Srinagar-Jammu highway which has led to the rotting of the apples.
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” You have turned Kashmir into an open prison, pulverized our economy. I warn the administration if they don’t immediately open the roads for trucks, I along with our workers will sit on a protest,” the PDP President said.
The JK admin should know lakhs of people in Kashmir are dependent on the apple industry. The farmers have taken loans and have to pay that back. Will the admin pay for the losses the farmers have incurred?, She asked.
Asking the admin to stop testing the patience of Kashmiris, Mehbooba Mufti said, “The JK admin on one hand is allowing the convoy to ploy smoothly on the streets and at the other, vehicles carrying our precious fruit are being stopped. If such tactics to punish Kashmiris will not be stopped. I will be forced to sit on the highway on a protest.”