Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 21: Kashmir Pandit Conference (KPC) said that the permanent solution of Jammu and Kashmir which will bring peace and prosperity lies in the abrogation of Article 370 and not in granting the self-rule, azadi or Greater Autonomy.
In a statement, KPC Chief, Kundan Kashmir proposed that the best solution lies in the empowerment of all the regions of the State after carving out separate Kashyap Bhoomi for KPs, with granting each region the administrative, economic and legislative powers, so that all the regions can develop and progress as per the aspirations of the people of each region.
While rejecting the claim of a section of the Muslims and their leaders in the Valley that azadi, self–rule or greater Autonomy remains only constitutional remedy to Kashmir issue, KPC Chief stated that Kashmir does not constitute whole of Jammu and Kashmir State, but it is merely about sixteen percent of the area of Jammu and Kashmir, which is presently in India.
Kundan Kashmiri said that Article 370, 1952 Agreement and separate constitution of Jammu and Kashmir have done great harm to the people of the State and to the integrity of the country. The boggy of Autonomy under Article 370 raised by separatists and the so-called leaders of the mainstream parties did not allow the people of Jammu and Kashmir, in particular that of Valley, to become the part of the national mainstream. It developed a psyche among the Kashmiri masses of treating themselves as separate from rest of India and encouraged the separatist tendencies to flourish, thus giving an opportunity to Pakistan to import terrorism in the Valley, which has kept Kashmir always boiling and adversely affected the economy of not only Kashmir but that of Jammu and Ladakh regions too, he added.
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