Rahil Dar

Firestarter, Professional social worker (MsW) Vice District president @YJKPC_ Kupwara, Media incharge @JKPC_ Kupwara,Focus; youth,Development & Politics

[Rahil Dar @DarRahil]

RT @sajadlone: I received this letter signed by the honourable Minister for Education.

This letter is addressed to all the MLAs. May I wi…

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Deeply saddened by the tragic demise of 9 year old Sadiya Pervaiz of Drugmulla in an unfortunate accident at BMS Janbazpora.

Heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family. May Almighty Allah grant her the highest place in Jannat-ul-Firdous and give the family strength to bear this irreparable loss.

[Rahil Dar @DarRahil]

@sajadlone @JKPCOfficial @YJKPC_ May Allah bless the departed soul.

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“THE CULT OF SELF”

I watched CM sahib talking to the media after meeting LG sahib. What a contemptuous and disdainful way of asking his party MLAs to not pester him for a ministerial berth.

I honestly can’t believe that these MLAs are comfortable with such belittling and humiliating remarks. If you are unable to accommodate them in the cabinet, you can spare them from public humiliation.

Anyway these are the internal party matters and I should not have commented. But there is always a spillover. You may direct the derision at your own members but it invariably belittles the political class.

I wonder how these elected members face their electors when they know they are treated like unworthy and incapable school boys.

Tasha Eurich in her book writes about the “The Power of Self-Awareness in a Self-Deluded World”. Somebody desperately needs to read it. Somebody is certainly self-deluded.

“The least competent people are usually the most confident in their abilities”, She writes.

And to the Honourable elected MLAs who act like bonded labour and who it seems are immune to humiliation. Spare the political class from this belittlement. We deserve better.

[Sajad Lone @sajadlone]

Here is another shocker of a gift for the people of J & K especially for the poorer sections of the society.

The smart metering is in process. The company issues a cable for connection to each household measuring not more than 4 meters. (2 meters for input and 2 meters for output)

Anything more than 4 meters has to be paid for by the household. Otherwise the household will not get electricity connection. And will be disconnected from the grid.

That means the farther the house is from an electric pole the more number of meters of cable is needed. Poor households have been forced to cough up anything between ₹ 4000 to ₹ 5000 to get smart meter installed.

So you get a windfall in terms of votes :-

By promising 200 units of free electricity. Two years have passed and not a single unit given free.

Smart metering was subjected to derision and sarcasm and anger by CM sahib, during the election campaign.

And now those who queued up to vote have to pay to get the smart meter installed.

That actually is a great joke. And the joke is yet again, on those who voted for CM sahib.

[Rahil Dar @DarRahil]

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The NC-led government may not have provided 200 units of free electricity to consumers, but it has admitted today, in response to my question, that Rs 251 crore will be collected from consumers on account of recent power tariff. It has also admitted that 11 lakh smart meters have been installed during its rule starting from October 2024.

[Sajad Lone @sajadlone]

A devastating fire in Varnav Lolab has resulted in 15 shops being gutted completely. Appeal to the district administration to please provide relief to the shopkeepers.

[Sajad Lone @sajadlone]

So now medical interns are being threatened with cancellation of their internships.

What a shame.

CM sahib.
I challenge you.
This arrogance. This bravado.
Can you please show this in Delhi when you go with shawls and bouquets to BJP top leadership.

The ones you sought votes against is the BJP.
They are the one you go with shawls and bouquets and bend your back backwards to please them.

And the ones whom you sought votes from, mainly Kashmiri’s are the one whom you threaten and treat with contempt and disdain.

And I believe you have said the Heath Minister is looking into the matter.
May I humbly remind you.
That the finance minister will have to arrange the cash not the health minister.
And apparently you are incharge of the finance department.

And to the people of Kashmir who gave them 42 seats,
May I say my hello to you all.

[Sajad Lone @sajadlone]

It is imperative that the demands of the striking medical interns be met. Medicine is still the noblest profession in the world. These interns deserve much more. They have to work so hard. They never stop studying. They have to keep studying all their life and keep treating patients. They put their lives in risk in times of pandemics like Covid.

And please if you do increase, do not follow it with a corresponding reductions in recruitment of interns the next year.

We definitely need more interns, more nursing staff and more dentists and more doctors.

I did some very basic arithmetics and economics calculations. Why raise money externally. Why not internally. There is ample scope.

I was looking at the following:-

1) bed capacity in J & K government hospitals. Number of beds.

2) Total number of OPD patients in government hospitals in J & K

3) Total number of private nursing homes, diagnostic centres and pharmacies of scale.

Just a food for thought. If we spare the BPL population.

And charge a minimum rate of ₹ 20-50 per night per bed.

Charge an extra ₹20-50 per patient in the OPD.

Charge an extra 10% for diagnostic procedures in government hospitals.

Allow patients to pay at market rates for expediting surgical interventions in government hospitals, non-peak hours or beyond the hours of duty and enumerate the doctor too.

Have a flat charge in the form of higher license fees for all private medical institutions in J & K who are licensed by the government. These would mean all nursing homes, all diagnostic centres, medical testing labs, pharmacies of scale etc etc.

Do your maths. The money is there. Raise it to raise the standard of medical care in J & K.

[Sajad Lone @sajadlone]

CM sahib it seems has no sense of timing.

Day 1, on the 2nd of September, 2026 NC and BJP protest, probably against each other. We saw pictures of NC leaders. One was trying to force his way to nowhere. The other was climbing a vehicle. The other was shouting his lungs out. Dozens of such visuals. All the visuals conveyed assertiveness and defiance. For a moment even I thought that they may repeat the Gen Z protest of Delhi.

And yet barely two days later, day 3, 4th of September, 2026, CM sahib calls on HM sahib. Of course there was a bouquet of flowers from CM sahib to HM sahib.

I am in wonderment. If CM sahib had to pose with HM sahib on the 4th of September in Delhi, why indulge in the theatre of absurd and do all song and dance in Srinagar on the 2nd of September.

Do these leaders like making fun of themselves when they are negated the very next day. Or does CM sahib love having some fun and masti at the cost of his colleagues.

The biggest casualty yet again is the sacred institution of protest. It has been literally assaulted here in Kashmir and rendered unrecognisable. The institution of Protest which has ushered in economic, political revolutions worldwide has been relegated to photo ops in Kashmir.

Common sense it seems is not very common. Or it seems collectively we have little common sense to not understand what should not have been uncommon.

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[Sajad Lone @sajadlone]

CM Sahab has himself approved the proposal for a five percent hike in power tariff .

In a communique submitted by the PDD to Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC), it is clearly stated that the Hon’ble CM (In-charge Minister, PDD) approved the proposal for a 5% tariff hike. The Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission finally raised it to 6.83%.

Today’s power tariff hike means an additional burden of more than Rs 500 crore on consumers, who have been helplessly waiting for 200 units of free electricity for the past two years.

CM Sahab himself had promised 200 units of free electricity to people of J&K.

🤔My salutes to great people who voted them to power. 🤔

[Sajad Lone @sajadlone]

It was such a good feeling to roll out the seven bed Dialysis centre at GMC Handwara.

MLA Handwara CDF grant of 32 Lakhs and a generous grant of 43 lakhs under SSY by the then DC Kupwara @SudanAyushi ensured that this seven bed modern dialysis unit is finally operational at GMC Handwara.

The SSY grant was used to get RO and the civil part of the project. The CDF was used to get the machinery component of the project.

Hope it serves the people.

What is urgently needed is Dialysis Technicians. The posts though requested officially are yet to be created.

[Sajad Lone @sajadlone]

Congratulations to the people of Rajwar. Water gushing into the reservoir at Lach. Finally we have added capacity of water after more than fifty years.

The last time water was supplied through this location, it was during the tenure of Lone Sahib as MLA in mid seventies.

Thanks to the PHE department. They worked hard and ensured supply of funds even during the governor rule when funds dried out.

Thanks to the great people of Mawar.

[Sajad Lone @sajadlone]

August 5, 2019 was a brutal coup against the people of J & K. It will be held up with contempt and disdain by the people of J & K, for all times to come.

The day of disempowerment of the people of J & K. When everything was taken away. Article 370, Article 35 A. And to add salt to the wounds, J & K was relegated to a UT.

I hope a day will come when people of India will understand that these were promises made to the people of J & K on the eve of accession. And gradually all the promises were reversed. And whatever little was left for the people of J & K to cling on to, was brutally taken away on August 5, 2019.

Hope for the day when the people of J & K will be empowered again as matter of right and not as a matter of charity.

[Sajad Lone @sajadlone]

APOLOGY SEASON

If there is indeed an apology season, isn’t an apology due for many more events.

Apology for trying to lie through the teeth by claiming the video to be AI generated.

Apology for collaborating with BJP for a rescue plan.

Apology for Doodh-Toffee remark,
Apology for blinding hundreds with pellets,
Apology for those killed in 2016,
Apology for detaining hundreds under PSA,
Apology for the bloodbath in 1990 during the home ministry tenure of Mufti sahib.
Apology for introduction of AFSPA during the home ministry tenure of Mufti sahib. AFSPA is a law till date.

And please do not demean and undermine the institution of apology.
The apology rendered today did not even remotely resemble an apology. Apology demands humility and humbleness.

And please stop using word mother.
Mothers don’t blind children. Mothers don’t lock up children under PSA.
Stop dehumanising the sacred institution of motherhood.

[Rahil Dar @DarRahil]

@parawahid It appears less like genuine concern and more like an attempt to shift the public discourse away from the controversy surrounding Mehbooba Mufti’s remarks during the Delhi protest. But people haven’t forgotten those comments, and diversionary statements won’t erase them.

[Rahil Dar @DarRahil]

@parawahid Interesting that you found your voice only after three days. These arrests didn’t happen today they took place days ago. Your sudden concern raises questions about the timing.