Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 1: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference today related the remarks of BJP Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Autonomy and Self Rule to mocking the miseries of people of J&K and rubbing salt into their wounds, saying under present ruling BJP Government J&K suffered from multi-pronged attacks on its identity and rights.
The Union Minister has made a laughing stock out of him by brazenly lying in a presser the other day on democracy said Party’s additional general secretary, Dr Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal.
While rejecting the remarks of Union Minster he said that the indicators of democracy nosedived in J&K post unilateral, unconstitutional and undemocratic abrogation of Articles 370, 35-A. “Far from what the Union Minister is absurdly claiming the ruling BJP has consciously disenfranchised the people of Jammu and Kashmir by downgrading a state that boasted its own constitution and flag into a union territory, by obliterating its supreme law making body in the form of Legislative Assembly, and by cutting on the rights of natives by doling out successive notification and orders on land laws,” he said adding,” What autonomy and self rule is he talking about?
“J&K boasted the most powerful legislature in the country that had to its credit famous land to tiller reforms and other measures that changed the fate of millions of people of J&K. In the new scheme of things supplanted on J&K, our legislature has been put on a much lower pedestal than that of other States. Is this the self-rule and autonomy Jitendra Singh is referring to?” Dr Kamaal asked.
He said that the people of J&K have been sidelined at all levels of Government and that Kashmiris in particular have taken the major brunt of the measures taken by New Delhi on 5th of August last year. “Seeing a Kashmiri in the highest echelons power has become a rare sight. There has been a sharp decline in the representation of Muslims in general and Kashmiris in particular from civil and police administration. It is a known fact how BJP led Central Government gradually marginalized Kashmiris from the different wings of administration since Governor’s rule following the toppling of elected Governments.
“Employing serial turncoats, police and civil administration to help it and its Team –B to grab power is what is high on the agenda of BJP in J&K. The way BJP is using civil and police administration in the ongoing DDC elections has made the entire process suspect and all that is being done to push down the measures taken by it on August 5 down our throats. To achieve that end BJP employed a plaint brigade of stooges,” Kamaal added.
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