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AAP to fight against extending Tosamaidan lease
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Friday, 21 March 2014
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Srinagar: Aam Admi Party (AAP) has
vowed to fight against granting of further extension of lease to
Artillery unit of Army for using the Tosamaidan pasture as a filed firing
range.
In a statement issued to KNS, AAP leader and Lok Sabha
candidate for Srinagar parliamentary seat Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat said that Aam
Aadmi Party would resist any move of the Government for granting further
extension in the lease agreement post April 2014 as AAP believes that granting
extension would directly effect the local population which has suffered
tremendous losses from the last more than six decades.
“Tosamaidan is a huge pasture which is spread over
hundreds of acres of land and the area has a great potential to be developed as
a tourist destination. Dozens of people have been killed and same
number of people turned permanently disable due to bursting of un exploded
shells which remain scattered in the area and if further lease is
extended , it clearly would indicate that Government is least bothered about
the basic human rights of the citizens. We hope that high level committee
constituted few months back under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary would
look into the human aspect first and ensure that the field firing range is
shifted from Tosamaidan to some uninhabited area of the state” said
Dr Muzaffar
If lease agreement is extended AAP would hold state wide
agitation over this issue, the statement added. “I have already filed a
petition in the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) regarding Tosamaidan
issue last year and I hope that NHRC will deliver justice and direct
the Defence Ministry not to extend the further lease agreement,” Dr Muzaffar
has added.(KNS)
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