Fight for aspirations, rights of people of J&K to continue: PDP

PDP leaders during a meeting in Srinagar on Wednesday.-Excelsior/ Shakeel
PDP leaders during a meeting in Srinagar on Wednesday.-Excelsior/ Shakeel

Holds first meeting post abrogation of 370

Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Sept 16: The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) today held a formal meeting of its party leaders making it first of its kind for the party post abrogation of Article 370 in August last year.
The party leaders stated that they pledge to continue fighting for the aspirations and rights of people of Jammu & Kashmir and resist by all democratic ways the onslaught by the Central Government.
The meeting come when the party president and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti continues to be under house arrest.
The party leaders who attended the meeting asserted that it won’t tolerate, what it called “brazen duplicity of Government of India in dealing with issues in Jammu & Kashmir and elsewhere.”
“On one hand, BJP is participating in dialogue with Taliban, talking reconciliation with PLA who have invaded Ladakh and discussing with Nagaland insurgents separate constitution and Flag, but at the same time using anything but dialogue to deal with the mess created by them after illegal scrapping of special status of J&K. This is unacceptable,” the party said.
The meeting was attended by a dozen of leaders including Ghulam Nabi Hanjura, Ajaz Ahmed Mir, Waheed-ur-Rehman, Suhail Bukhari, Tahir Syed and some party workers.
The party emphasized that the “constitutional fraud perpetrated on the people of J&K and the subsequent bulldozing of constitutional rights will always remain unacceptable and would be fought uncompromisingly.”
The meeting was presided over by party vice president A R Veeri and party general secretary G N Lone Hanjura and addresses by former legislator and district president Muhammad Khurshid Alam, party youth wing president Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra and former legislator Aijaz Ahmad Mir.
It is to be mentioned here that all of them, as per the party, stepped out of their homes for the first time since they were detained on August 5, 2019.
Addressing the gathering, Veeri said that in these tough times “we need to maintain unity, ignite the embers of hope and be steadfast and resolute in our endeavours to protect our rights and dignity”.
“We reject undemocratic treatment imposed by the ruling regime, which has hundreds of our youngsters unjustifiably held in jails, despite huge risks to their lives from the COVID-19 pandemic. Our voices have been ignored, our institutions erased. We cannot afford to remain silent any longer,” participants of the meeting stated.
“Jammu and Kashmir has seen many lockdowns and crises. And each time we have shown that we can survive and stand with one another. We have demonstrated to the world a unique capacity to resist,” Hanjura said.
Youth Wing President of the party, Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra said that there is a need to accept that there is a problem which is political.
“We demand an immediate end to ruling regime’s denial of the political problem. Our people have endured a brutal clampdown and the world’s longest internet slowdown,” he said.
Former Legislator Aijaz Ahmad Mir while taking an emotional route said: “Too many of our mothers and sisters have been rendered widows. Too many of our children have been lost. Too many of our students are staring ahead at bleak futures.”
He added that there is unending insecurity among the young people with the fresh fears of demographic change, assaults on jobs, land rights, culture & language.

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