Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 28: Top NPP leader Prof Bhim Singh today urged the President of India to withdraw LG’s order of December 27, 2019 and restore statehood of J&K.
Talking to media-persons here today, Bhim Singh said that he has forwarded a letter to the President of India, seeking his intervention into the matter.
Singh said, he has appealed the President to intervene urgently to save the constitutional status, history and cultural-political identity of Jammu and Kashmir in the interest of National Integration. The first historic and political blunder committed was that status of Jammu & Kashmir was demolished which reduced the 200 years old State into a Union Territory without any justification.
NPP leader alleged that Government in Jammu and Kashmir headed by Lt Governor has committed constitutional blunder in Jammu and Kashmir declaring October 26 as holiday in reference of the Accession Day which was signed by Maharaja Hari Singh on October 26, 1947, but, accepted by the Governor-General of India, Lord Mountbatten on October 27, 1947. The Lt Governor without constitutional power has declared October 26 as a holiday.
It was October 27 when the Accession signed by the Maharaja was accepted/ approved by the Governor-General. Naturally, in accordance to the International Law and the history, October 27 should have been declared as a holiday because this day Governor-General of India representing the British Government accepted/signed the Accession according to the law made by the Act of British Parliament. These facts and the constitutional history cannot be changed/reversed.
Singh said it is also shocking that Lt Governor having no legislative power/authority to change the history or facts of J&K has committed blunder by deleting a holiday on the birthday of Sheikh Abdullah on December 5. Sheikh Abdullah was a secular/nationalist leader of Kashmir, the first Prime Minister of J&K who raised tricolour flag in 1946 and he with his supporters did not allow Mohd Ali Jinnah to speak at Lal Chowk. He led the movement in Kashmir in support of India and opposed Pakistan. It was Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir which had declared December 5 as a holiday in honour of a nationalist/secular leader. This was a decision of the people of Jammu and Kashmir through their Assembly which could not have been changed. He also opposed the decision of cancelling holiday on Martyrs’s Day being observed on July 13.
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