Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 9: Chief Patron of National Panthers Party Prof Bhim Singh today while expressing deep shock on an interview of the PDP (J&K) president published in a national daily, for advocating for declaring J&K as ‘free zone’ with ‘independent currency’, ‘elected Governor’ and establish a state on a ‘model of SARC’, said that this is one step more than the outraged demand for greater autonomy by National Conference in J&K. He said that even Hurriyat Conference demanding referendum in J&K has not gone to that extent.
In a press statement here, today Prof. Singh cautioned the people of J&K to beware of both National Conference and PDP which represent the two faces of the same coin preaching secession to break J&K from the rest of the country to please their masters. He cautioned the people of J&K particularly the youth that the so-called Hurriyat Conference leaders have been running their shops for years promoting Dixon Plan to bifurcate Jammu Pradesh. This was to dissect the Muslim majority districts of Poonch (plus Rajouri) and Doda (Ramban + Kishtwar) from Jammu Pradesh and tag them with the Kashmir valley to create a so-called Greater Kashmir to manage a foot-hold as the US military base in the Himalayas.
NPP Supremo appealed the people of J&K and particularly the intellectuals and the civil society to understand the motto of the two main parties, National Conference and PDP which have been exposed thoroughly about the real design they stand for. Both the parties are asking for power by misleading the people. One is asking for the so-called ‘self rule’ and another ‘Greater Autonomy’ whereas both stand for seeking power by misleading the people in J&K.
Prof. Singh appealed to all the nationalist, secular and democratic political and social organizations and groups in J&K to support the Panthers Party leadership which alone has been working in defense of civil liberties of the suffering people.