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28 village council chiefs, members resign in Kashmir
Sunday January 13, 2013 09:02:17 PM,
IANS
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Srinagar: As many as
28 sarpanches (village council chiefs) and panches (council
members) from Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district Sunday said
they had resigned from their posts due to threats to their lives.
A total of 22 sarpanches and panches, from Sopore area of
Baramulla, told media persons they were resigning their positions
because of threats from separatist militants, while six others
from the same area sent their resignation letters to the
widely-circulated 'Greater Kashmir' daily to be published as paid
advertisements in Monday's issue.
A sarpanch at Bomai village near Sopore town was killed by
separatist militants on Friday while another panch, a woman
belonging to Harda Shiva village of the same area, was critically
injured in another militant attack Saturday.
Doctors in Sopore had referred the injured panch to the super
specialty Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Soura
(SKIMS) here. Attending doctors say she is still in critical
condition.
Panchayat elections were held after 30 years across Jammu and
Kashmir in 2011. Despite threats from the separatists, an
overwhelming majority of voters turned out in the rural areas to
elect their representatives.
Since their elections, thousands of elected village
representatives have been seeking security cover. The state
government maintains that individual security to every sarpanch
and panch is not possible, but individual security to some of them
based on threat perceptions was being considered besides
domination of areas where guerrillas are still believed to be
operating.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah arrived here earlier
Sunday to take stock of the security situation in the wake of
attacks on the village representatives.
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