2-day State Conference adopts several resolutions
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 18: 13th State Conference of Communist Party of India (Marxist), J&K, concluded, here today with the adoption of several resolutions and election of State Committee, comprising of 23 members with Mohd Abass Rather as the Secretary.
Resolutions on democratic rights and civil liberties, restoration of Statehood, unemployment, National Education Policy, rehabilitation of Kashmiri migrants, Land Laws, Trade union rights, agriculture and horticulture were unanimously adopted in the two-day State Conference
Inaugurating the open session of the conference, Comrade Prakash Karat, Co-ordinator and Polit Bureau member of CPI(M), said that dismantling the historic state of J&K into two separate Union Territories on 19th August, 2019 was a direct assault on the constitution and federal structure of the country.
“It is now the collective responsibility of the secular and democratic forces in the country to support and fight for the restoration of Statehood to J&K,” he stressed. Also accusing the RSS- BJP combine of assaulting secular ethos of the country, he said it was detrimental to the larger national interest.
Comrade Dr Ashok Dhawale, President All India Kisan Sabha and member Polit Bureau, emphasized that trade unions, working class forces and youth of the country should come on one platform to oppose the pro-corporate policies adopted by this Government to benefit few families at the cost of crores of working people.
M Y Tarigami, senior leader of CPI(M) and MLA, denounced the ‘blatant and brazen’ assault on the constitutional rights of the people of J&K by arrogantly abrogating Articles 370 and 35-A in August 2019. “As it was not enough, this arrogant dispensation bifurcated the historic State formed by Dogra rulers into two separate Union Territories, which amounts to sheer humiliation of people’s aspirations,” he said and added that it was Maharaja Hari Singh who promulgated the notifications in 1927 and 1932, banning the outsiders in J&K to purchase land and apply for jobs in the State.
He emphasised that the rate of unemployment in J&K is alarming which needs to be addressed on war footing basis. He asserted for release of political prisoners and media persons and rehabilitation of Kashmii migrants in the Valley. He appealed the secular and democratic forces of the country to unitedly come forward in the fight for restoration of constitutional rights and statehood to J&K.
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