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Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Legislative Assembly connected Monday (February 9, 2026) witnessed a disruption aft a PDP person accused the authorities of pushing the Union Territory into a indebtedness trap by bringing successful the Special Assistance to States for Capital Investment (SASCI) scheme.
PDP legislator Waheed Ur Rehman Para, who was joined by his enactment colleagues and Independent MLA Sheikh Khurshid, was countered by the National Conference (NC), starring to a heated speech of words betwixt the 2 sides.
Mubarak Gul, who was holding the chair, made repeated attempts to power the concern and yet adjourned the location half-an-hour earlier the scheduled extremity of the archetypal sitting.
While the ruckus was going on, BJP members stood up from their seats and staged a walkout, accusing the seat of not allowing the enactment members clip to talk connected the budget. Some of their members besides tried to participate the good but were pushed backmost by the marshals.
Targeting the government, PDP MLA Para accused the ruling dispensation of pushing J&K into a indebtedness trap.
“The Chief Minister (Omar Abdullah) and NC MLAs are boasting astir bringing Special Assistance to States for Capital Investment (SASCI) to the UT. This is not a payment strategy but a indebtedness trap done which you are mortgaging J&K to industrialists,” Mr. Para said portion participating successful the treatment connected the Budget.
“You are taking loans from the market, which amounts to demolition and sets a precise unsafe precedent,” helium added.
Mr. Para said the National Conference had received a immense mandate to support the interests of J&K successful the aftermath of the abrogation of Article 370 successful 2019 and to enactment towards reclaiming the erstwhile State with each its safeguards intact.
“It is unfortunate that alternatively of honouring that mandate, you are putting the full J&K connected merchantability today,” helium said.
Mr. Para urged the CM to rethink the scheme, cautioning that J&K should not beryllium pushed towards a concern akin to that faced by “failed States similar Sri Lanka and Pakistan”.
Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary led the counter-attack and rejected the allegations, accusing the absorption leaders of “playing to the gallery” and politicising a fiscal assistance model intended for development.
While the seat was trying to pacify the concern and was asking a National Conference subordinate to speak, BJP objected and tried to participate the well, alleging that they were not being fixed capable clip to talk and aboriginal moved retired of the house.
As the upset continued, Mr. Gul adjourned the House half-an-hour earlier the scheduled clip till 2:30 p.m.
Raising concerns implicit governance and budgetary performance, the PDP legislator said that portion radical had precocious expectations from the NC Government, J&K was passing done “the astir unprecedented times”.
“There is nary uncertainty that the challenges earlier the NC Government are immense, and it is besides existent that specified challenges person not been faced by immoderate authorities successful the past 7 decades,” Mr. Para said.
He acknowledged that the contiguous authorities was operating nether superior constraints but said nationalist expectations remained precocious and could not beryllium ignored.
Referring to past year’s fund of ₹1.40 lakh crore, helium said astir ₹40,000 crore was earmarked for gross expenditure portion superior expenditure stood astatine astir ₹7,600 crore.
“With hardly 30 days near for the fiscal twelvemonth to end, I privation to cognize whether the authorities is susceptible of spending astir ₹1 lakh crore wrong this abbreviated period,” Mr. Para said.
He claimed that lone astir 12% of expenditure had been achieved truthful acold and alleged that astir 100 projects recorded zero spending, including successful captious sectors specified arsenic agriculture, horticulture, wellness and education.
“Allocations are meaningless unless organization bottlenecks are addressed. The authorities indispensable explicate whether the nonaccomplishment to walk is owed to dual powerfulness structures oregon administrative paralysis,” helium said.
Highlighting the societal crisis, helium said astir 70% of the colonisation comprised youth, with astir 32% reportedly suffering from depression.
He besides demanded the refund of astir ₹50 crore collected arsenic fees, questioning however families were expected to put specified amounts arsenic the unemployment complaint successful J&K is highest successful the country.
Flagging substance abuse, helium claimed that astir 5 lakh radical were affected by cause addiction and astir 4 lakh by intoxicant abuse, portion alleging that the fund failed to accord precedence to the issue.
He besides described crab arsenic a “silent pandemic” claiming thousands of deaths without capable effect and questioning the soundlessness of the authorities connected this issue.
The legislator further raised concerns implicit the closure of 215 schools linked to banned Jamaat-e-Islami, affecting astir 50,000 students, and sought a elaborate mentation for the decision.
He pointed retired that determination was nary allocation for a National Law University successful the fund and criticised the authorities for failing to instrumentality a determination connected mounting up deemed universities successful each 20 districts arsenic an effort to forestall targeted attacks connected Kashmiri students extracurricular J&K and the alleged nonaccomplishment of the authorities to support them.
He besides flagged rising diesel and transport costs, mounting fiscal unit connected the population, and the deficiency of focused enactment for orphans and different susceptible sections.
