Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 9: Former MLC and JK UT spokesperson of BJP, Girdhari Lal Raina has termed Dr. Farooq Abdullah’s statement regarding accession of Jammu Kashmir with rest of India as distortion of history and misrepresentation of facts.
In a statement issued here, today Raina said Sheikh Abdullah was nobody and had no authority to decide about accession in 1947, he asserted.
The National Conference (NC) and Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah were not with Maharaja Hari Singh. On the contrary they had launched the Quit Kashmir movement in May 1946 against the then ruler of the Princely State, GL Raina recalled. The State administration arrested and charged Sheikh Abdullah with sedition. Even Jawaharlal Nehru attempted to go to Kashmir in support of Abdullah but was forced to return back, Raina added.
He stressed that the Nehru and Sheikh duo created as many hurdles as possible for a smooth accession process. The NC boycotted elections held for the State’s Legislative Assembly in January 1947.Even the British resident in Kashmir observed the discomfort of Maharaja Hari Singh because of “antagonism’ displayed by a section of Congress Party, he added.
Raina said in fact Maharaja expressed fears of ill-treatment at the hands of Congressmen to Punjab businessman Rai Bahadur Gopal Das who relayed this to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Raina said.
Similarly, Dr Farooq is misleading on the issue of J&K Resettlement Law 1982 that intended to grant of permit for Resettlement in or Permanent Return to the State in terms of permanent residents and their descendants who had migrated to Pakistan between March 1, 1947 and May 14, 1954.
It was a pure communal and subversive piece of legislation by the then Government and NC that denied basic human rights to Valmikis , Gorkhas and West Pakistan refugees who were in J&K for decades, Raina reminded.
Raina cautioned people against leaders and political parties distorting history and trying to communalise the situation by their utterances and actions.
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