Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 2: Taking strong exception to Statement of Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani that mainstream politicians is the reason for current unrest, death and destruction, Dr Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal, general secretary, National Conference, said the veteran leader would be well advised to recollect his role in J&K politics especially since 1972.
National Conference under the leadership of late Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah freed the people of J&K from shackles of serfdom of one hundred years long oppressive feudal rule in 1947 under infamous “ treaty of Amritsar” between Maharaja Ranjeet Singh and the East India Company of British signed in 1846.
It is also a fact admitted by even the opponents of National Conference that it was Pakistan backed tribal invasion of J&K in 1947 in the formative year of the partition of the Indian sub- continent into India and Pakistan.
The root cause of the repeated episodes of un-rest from 1947 has been violation of the instrument of Accession, based on it the Article 370 of the Indian constitution and Delhi Agreement of 1952 by successive Governments since 1953 to 1975. The current unrest has been the most violent and highly angry unrest so far.
My appeal to Geelani Sahab is to shun his misplaced and false notions of National Conference and its founder of which he has been a part once and use his influence in cooling tempers and correcting the waywardness of youth which is jeopardizing their future instead of wasting time on egoism before it is too late and everything goes up in smoke.
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