Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 2: Former Union Minister and Congress leader Prof Saifuddin Soz today said that those stressing for restoration of the Statehood were hampering real demand of the J&K’s autonomy.
“Even a cursory reading of the struggle of the people of J&K will show that the real demand of the people to get the autonomy of the state restored,” he said in a statement, issued here.
Rejecting the plea that since restoration of the statehood is on cards, they must raise their voice for the statehood only to get credit, Prof Soz said it was a foul play. “Such leaders are trying to throw dust into the eyes of the people, whom they see only as gullible stock,” he added.
Alleging that the mainstream political class consisting mainly of the J&K NC, PDP, Apni Party, Peoples’ Conference, Peoples Democratic Front, CPI(M) etc seem to have got the political fatigue, Prof Soz said the history’s lesson is that the struggle for achieving the goal is more important than to achieve the goal itself.
“I wish the J&K political class summons courage to raise its full voice for restoration of the Internal Autonomy for the State! My conviction is that this class is powerful. It can achieve the goal,” he maintained.
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