Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 16: Y V Sharma, spokesperson of BJP reacted strongly against the baseless, irresponsible, communal and seemingly anti national statements of two former Chief Ministers of J&K, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, president JK NC and Mehbooba Mufti, president JK PDP.
In a press release issued today Sharma accused both these leaders of indirectly inciting communal passions, provoking violence and encouraging militancy which is almost on its wane after the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35-A in August 2019. Dr. Abdullah’s statement that militancy won’t end unless Government wins the hearts of the people in J&K and seeks its solution and Mehbooba Mufti’s outburst that BJP is rejecting the conditions under which they joined the nation, they cannot remain silent, asking the people to fight back otherwise they are going to lose everything, accusing the Government of using military might to silence the voice of the people for which they must struggle, 100-150 lads, a relatively modest number, have taken up arms are indicators in this direction.
Sharma asserted that both these statements are factually wrong and can invoke even the charges of sedition against them.
Sharma clarified that the documents of accession of J&K with India was signed by late Maharaja Hari Singh (because only he was authorized to do so) without any condition. Article 370 and 35-A were subsequently introduced as temporary provisions. They were misused for their own vested interests to keep themselves in power somehow by the rulers in J&K, made them tools of blackmail, tried to isolate the people of J&K from the rest of the country by misinterpreting the articles and creating a mini-nation within the grand Indian nation, arousing communal and religious passions, triggering migration of the minority Hindu Kashmiri Pandit community from the Valley and by their designs involving Pakistan and making JK a cockpit of international intrigues.
He said Dr. Farooq Abdullah and other Kashmiri leaders who claim to be the true leaders of Kashmir and shed crocodile tears on the migration of this threatened community remained silent and went into their shells. Dr. Farooq Abdullah, left this community at the mercy of the miscreants and left for London for his own safety, he added.
Why did these leaders not make any effort to stop the migration? Sharma asked?
Does it not show their tacit approval? If they are the real leaders of Kashmir, why have they failed to convince the people of Kashmir to ensure the safe, secure and dignified return of these helpless people to their homes back in Kashmir, asked Sharma.
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