Politicians have failed to provide even basic facilities to people in Kashmir. Exploitation and injustice by successive regimes have turned Kashmir into a big profitable business for political parties and the aam aadmi is struggling beyond imagination.
The lack of drinking water in Harinara and Matipora is enough to understand the level of exploitation of the masses at the hands of elected representatives. For the last eight months, the village of Harinara has been facing an acute shortage of water. The people have alleged that they are being deprived deliberately due to political interests.
The issue has been brought to the notice of concerned representatives several times but has been repeatedly ignored. The women in the village stated that they are consuming impure water from ponds and streams and walking for miles to other villages for clean drinking water for their children.
A girl told me that walking to far off villages every day is very difficult. Due to consumption of impure water, the lives of thousands of people are in danger. The story is the same in Matipora Pattan where people are suffering from chronic diseases like jaundice, cholera and so on.