Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 18: Congress leader Vikramaditya Singh has come under severe attack from his own party veteran Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz as well as from PDP for using alleged derogatory words against martyrs of 1931.
“Vikramaditya Singh’s obnoxious remarks regarding the martyrdom of innocent Kashmiris massacred by Dogra Army on 13th July, 1931 deserves strongest condemnation. The right course for this sick mind is to travel to Nagpur and beg for the membership of RSS and find balm to his sick mind, there!” said Prof Soz, in a statement issued here today.
The former Union Minister disclosed that he has written to Congress president Rahul Gandhi strongly against Vikramaditya Singh and asked him to see such a `sick mind’ out of the Congress party. “I further told the Congress president that no condemnation of this obnoxious statement can save the Congress cadres from the bad impact of these remarks and it would be inviting trouble for the party if such a person continues to be in the Congress Party nourishing the RSS ideology!” he added.
Prof Soz said that he had also written to SSP Kishtwar to convert the petition moved by Sajad Ahmad Najar, District president Congress Kishtwar, in the court of CJM, copy of which has gone to them, into an FIR and initiate immediate proceedings under law.
Meanwhile, PDP has also flayed Vikramaditya Singh over his statement on July 13, 1931 martyrs, terming it derogatory, mischievous and reflection of a communal mindset.
While castigating Singh over the use of such foul language, PDP general secretary Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura asked the Congress leader to read the history correctly to get an idea about supreme sacrifice made by the 22 Kashmiris on July 13, 1931. Hanjura said that the statement has reflected Singh’s vindictive and communal mindset and has exposed how some people in the State love to remain in their feudal fantasies and seek pleasure in witnessing peoples’ rights being trampled with impunity. The PDP general secretary also asked Congress party to come clear on its policy vis-a-vis the historic event of July 13, 1931. “On one side Congress leaders play theatrics by offering Fateha on martyrs’ graveyard and on the other hand, the leaders of the party ridicule the same martyrs publicly. This is the high time that the Congress party must make its stand clear,” he added.
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