Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, June 29: Chief patron of National Panthers Party Prof Bhim Singh has said that reorganization of J&K on the patron of Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Gujarat and Bihar is essential to end internal conflict and political chaos in J&K State.
In a press statement the veteran NPP leader said that J&K was created in 1846 by Treaty of Amritsar between Maharaja of J&K, Gulab Singh and the East India Company through a heterogeneous Union of Gilgit, Ladakh, Baltistan, Jammu and Kashmir Valley under political compulsions existing at that time. He said that the situation stands changed and it is highly essential under the present combination and permutation in the sub-continent that the people of these regions are given benefit of modern history in the light of the distinct geographical, anthropological, political, cultural and historic background and situation.
Prof Singh said Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan formed a distinct cultural unit having different geographical map as compared to the Kashmir Valley and Jammu Pradesh. He said that Dogra Pahari-Gujjar cultural identity has to be recognized on its merit and so should be the case with the cultural, linguistic and historical identity of the people living in the Kashmir Valley. In other words, Prof Singh argued strongly, that the State needs to be reorganized with the formation of Jammu Pradesh, Kashmir Valley and Ladakh-Baltistan.
The NPP leader described the present State-Centre relations as a part of the tragedy which people of J&K have been experiencing after the promulgation of the Constitution of India on 26th January, 1950. J&K was kept out of the preview (jurisdiction) of Constitution of India.
Prof Singh said that as long as J&K is not reorganized and fundamental rights granted to every Indian citizen residing in J&K, there could be no peace and no harmony. He demanded Uniform Constitution in the country and introduction of fundamental rights to the people residing in J&K.
Trending Now
E-Paper
Follow our WhatsApp channel