Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 30: Apni Party president, Mohd Altaf Bukhari today expressed deep concern over the manner in which some of the political parties are trying to compromise dignity of the people of J&K by conspiring against the basic right of the people to have their Statehood back to them.
In a statement issued here, Bukhari claimed that Apni Party will stay with its pledge and struggle till the Statehood is restored to Jammu and Kashmir. “There will be no compromise on this demand, come what may,” he remarked.
Bukhari said that since its inception, Apni Party in March 2020, made it clear that it wanted the Statehood restored to J&K at the earliest, while it requested the Supreme Court to decide the matter regarding abrogation of Article 370 without any further delay keeping in view aspirations of the people.
He said that by their overtures and public posturing it seems that National Conference and PDP are conspiring against restoration of Statehood because they know that Apni Party is the sole party that had taken a firm stand on the issue from day one since this arbitrary decision was taken.
“Simply for the reason of their partisan interests, these parties have started working against Statehood for J&K. Their promise of reuniting Ladakh and J&K is also hollow,” Bukhari observed.
He said Apni Party laid emphasis on restoration of Statehood because snatching away this status had inflicted an assault on the identity of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. He recalled that this demand was listed in the Apni Party memorandum that was submitted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah from time to time since the inception of the Party.
That time, he said, parties like NC and PDP had started leveling baseless charges, and now they are conspiring to fulfil their petty political ambitions by agreeing to the UT as the final status of Jammu and Kashmir.
“Now these parties have started beseeching for elections in the current status by trying to undermine the idea of the restoration of statehood. Their high mark of getting Article 370 has been edged out of the discourse, and they are maintaining mysterious silence on the restoration of the Statehood to J&K,” Bukhari averred.
“These parties stand exposed as the political opportunists who can compromise on anything. Their slogans were always hollow. In the process they are suppressing the people’s wishes,” he added.
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