Jammu, Apr 11: Former minister and Apni Party president Altaf Bukhari on Tuesday welcomed “peace and development” in Jammu and Kashmir and said that youth want peace, not war.
Congratulating the Government of India, Security Forces and the administration for “restoring peace”, Bukhari said, “Jammu and Kashmir is normal and youth of this belt want to live in peace and do not want war”.
Bukhari was addressing a press conference along with other senior leaders.
Bukhari said, “Jammu and Kashmir is as normal as any place in this country and we must be happy that in the last eight months, no local youth has joined the militancy.”
The Apni Party president also lauded Union Minister Nitin Gadkari for announcing several road connectivity projects and tunnels for Jammu and Kashmir.
“It is appreciable that Nitin Gadkari has fixed a deadline to complete the Zojila tunnel as this historic connectivity is also very important and strategic from the defence point of view,” he said.
Bukhari while counting the decisions taken by the Union Minister with regard to road connectivity, appealed for better road infrastructure across the Union Territory and stated that the Zojila tunnel will further be strengthening bonds and connecting people of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, which were bifurcated into two Union Territories in 2019.
He also appealed to the Union Minister to consider suspending Toll Plazas on Jammu-Kathua national highway till the road conditions get better.
Bukhari while suggesting the construction of bridges as connectivity instead of digging and cutting mountains, appealed to the administration to engage and employ more local youth at the sites where the projects are underway.
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