Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 4: Appalled at the Congress and the Kashmir centric NC, PDP getting united to issue threats of dire consequences in case the article 35-A was tinkered besides BJP making statements to hoodwink the people over the issue which is sub-judice in the Supreme Court, NPP activists spearheaded by its chairman Harsh Dev Singh and other party leaders staged a protest demonstration at Exhibition Ground here today.
The angry protestors accused all the parties of whipping up the emotions to flare up civil unrest in a bid to influence and mount pressure on the judiciary.
Addressing the media, Harsh Dev said that while the mainstream Congress and the Kashmir based political parties including the NC and PDP had jumped into the fray of ‘competitive separatism’ for towing the line of the secessionists ruling the roost in the valley on the issue of Art 35-A, the BJP had been issuing incongruous statements on different occasions over the sub-judice article to befool the people of Jammu Pradesh. He said that general secretary Pradesh Congress Committee and MLA from Bandipora had recently issued a statement that abrogation of Art 35-A would lead to civil war in Kashmir which would not remain restricted to the valley but engulf whole of India. Likewise, one of the NC MLAs had issued a seditious statement of late that if any alteration was made in the said article, then the Indian flag would not be seen in Kashmir. Similarly, Chief Spokesperson of the PDP had warned of dire consequences if Art 35-A was tinkered with.
BJP on the other hand had been advocating revocation of the disputed article now which it was defending while in the coalition before parting ways with its ally with the BJP partnered State Govt having hired four top most lawyers of the country to defend it. Its chameleon character had been exposed and its leaders were issuing such statements once again to hoodwink the people, Harsh divulged.
“All the mainstream and the Valley centric parties were instigating the public over Art 35-A just to reap political benefits and influence the Apex Court’s proceedings which was not healthy for the democracy. This was shocking example of contempt of court”, Harsh Dev added.
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