AAP to fight against Tosamaidan lease extension

5 Dariya News (Muzaffar Bhat, Rouf Pampori)

Srinagar 21-Mar-2014

Aam Admi Party Friday vowed to fight against granting extension of lease to army for using the Tosamaidan pasture as a filed firing range.AAP leader and Lok Sabha candidate for Srinagar parliamentary seat Raja Muzaffar Bhat said the party would resist any move of the government for granting further extension in the lease agreement post April 2014. "As AAP believes that granting extension would directly affect the local population which has suffered tremendous losses from the last more than six decades," he said.He said that the party hopes that high level committee constituted few months back under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary would look into the human aspect first and ensure that the field firing range is shifted from Tosamaidan to some uninhabited area of the state."If lease agreement is extended AAP would hold state wide agitation over this issue,” he said in the statement.