Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Aug 13: Jammu and Kashmir Member of Parliament from Anantnag Hasnain Masoodi cautioned people against efforts to divert attention from core challenges of far reaching consequence confronted in wake of abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and downgrading it to a Union Territory in blatant violation of the Constitution and disregard of the binding commitments made.
“Twin strategies followed to divert attention from abrogation of special status, Reorganization Act and steps like delimitation, domicile law etc taken under the Act, though facing a serious challenge before the Apex Court, are to magnify day to day problems and give the routine decisions colour of achievements and use the response as indicator of public approval of 5th August 2019 decisions and secondly to sow the seeds of despair and disillusionment,” he said in a statement, issued here today.
Mr Masoodi observed that the recent developments on the political horizon of Jammu and Kashmir are part of the second limb of the strategy. “What is unfolding appears to have been scripted a year back.
In a veiled attack on Shah Faisal, Mr Masoodi said that just a year back these very people who are now accused of not shedding a tear responded to a fund raising call for the party launched and deposited lakhs within a jiffy and as claimed women donated their much loved and precious jewellery. “There are no watertight compartments in politics and between the `stooge’ and `separatist’ there are hundred shades of a `renegade’; one cannot come to politics of struggle on `deputation’ and pack nailing the oppressed for not standing or shedding tears for him,” he said.
The NC MP observed that proposed legal framework to provide for land rights, like domicile law would be meaningless in absence of Constitutional backing as is evident from the challenge thrown to Domicile Order and Procedure. “Restoration of 4th August 2019 position is the only way forward. If GoI can work out an agreement with Bodo people in April 2020 and give assurances of autonomy including land rights and ILP to the seven North Eastern States there is no reason not to restore special status of Jammu and Kashmir guaranteed in the Constitution and unconstitutionally taken away,” he said.
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