Restore internet in Jammu, demands Panthers Party

Tribune News Service

Jammu, August 31

Expressing concern over stalling mobile internet services besides imposing several other restrictions in the peaceful districts of the Jammu region, Panthers Party leader Harsh Dev Singh on Saturday accused the government of resorting to draconian moves as a measure of state policy.

“Not only the internet services have been snapped for the past 27 days, even the most credible leaders of the Jammu region, known for their nationalist credentials, have been placed under house arrest,” he said in a handout.

He said that while preventive detention of anti-nationals or those politicians supporting the separatist ideology could be justified, the detention of nationalist leaders for the last around four weeks without any basis, defied all logic and rationale. He said the NDA government, in a bid to demonstrate its powers and authority, had resorted to such undemocratic moves which were not in tune with the concept of liberal democracy.

Ridiculing the argument that mobile internet ban had been imposed to prevent its misuse by anti-nationals, Singh said it was like ordering motor vehicles to stop plying on roads so as to prevent accidents.