Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 8: Taking a dig at National Conference (NC) president and former Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah for his statement in a public rally at Mandi in Poonch condemning the demand of “Azadi” which he had advocated only a couple of days back while making a speech in a seminar organised by Central University, Kashmir in Srinagar, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today stated that the double face of Farooq Abdullah has been exposed once again.
“Knowing fully well that there are no takers of Azadi, South of Pir Panjal, Farooq has very cleverly changed his stance by demanding the Line of Control (LoC) be converted into a Line of Peace thus making it amply clear that his party has no ideology and only believes in arousing passions by playing with people’s emotions for vote-bank politics,” BJP spokesperson, Brig (retd) Anil Gupta said in a statement issued here, today.
He said Farooq thinks that the people do not understand the game he is playing. N C has survived as a political party by posing itself as the well-wisher of Kashmiri speaking Muslims. It has always been wary of losing prominence due to the challenge posed by other Muslims like Paharis, Punjabis, Gujjars & Shia, in general and Muslims of erstwhile Jammu province in particular. Same fear continues to haunt Farooq and co even today and that is why rather than uniting the population living across the LoC, he advocates it to be made a permanent border, said Brig Gupta.
He said it was for the same very reason that the Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah father of Dr Farooq Abdullah forced Prime Minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru to announce unilateral ceasefire when the invaders were on the run and Indian Army was well poised to recapture the areas of Mirpur, Kotli, Poonch, and Muzaffarabad.
Had Muzaffarabad been recaptured, the strategic areas of Gilgit-Baltistan, Hunza and other frontier districts would have automatically returned to India as all lines of communications to these areas passed through Muzaffarabad and also saved the State from the problem of refugees which haunts the State till date, he added.
As regards return of Haji Peer and Chhamb, Brig Gupta asked Dr Farooq to question his ally Congress who not only betrayed the people of the State but also belittled the sacrifices of the Indian Army by returning to Pakistan the territories captured by Indian forces. Has strategic Haji Peer Pass been in our possession today, there would have been no Uri-Poonch bulge and there was no question of Pakistan launching a proxy war against India, he added.
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