Time cannot be reversed with hope of expecting status quo ante: Ashok Bhan on Gupkar declaration

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Daily Excelsior
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Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Sept 7: Rejecting Gupkar declaration, legal eagle and senior leader of Indian National Congress Party , Ashok Bhan has said that time cannot be reversed with hope of expecting status quo ante.
Also claiming that Bhartiya Janata Party has lost its political plot in Jammu & Kashmir, he stressed for building a consensus of political opinion of JK and garner the support of all the non BJP parties in the country to support JK movement.
“The people are hurt and angry. Alienation is almost total particularly in Kashmir Valley and Kashmiri people are like caged parrots with their anger and legitimate protest voices stifled by the use of muscle of the LG administration. There is no connect of administration with the people. The tall promises of development and promised economic initiatives to be put in place are no where visible . All the MSMEs, Industry , trade, tourism and related businesses have collapsed and the suffering is colossal due to no economic package,” he said while speaking at the webinar organised by Centre for Peace & Progress.
Mr Bhan further alleged that the promised return , restitution, rehabilitation and political empowerment of aborigines Kashmiri natives back in Valley is not even being talked about. The exiled natives are longing to return to their homes for the last three decades, he added
Maintaining that the country’s strategic and democratic interests lay in the people of Jammu & Kashmir not in the land alone, he appealed for building a consensus of political opinion of JK and garner the support of all the non BJP parties in the country to support JK movement.
“Let us move forward and create a healthy political environment for our legitimate exercise of democratic rights. Let us have “JK declaration” instead of Gupkar, to plan a democratic movement in JK to demand scraping of bifurcation of the State into two UTs and urgent restoration of the Statehood, protect, preserve and strengthen our heritage, multicultural -spiritual ethos and revive the secular polity that has eroded over the years by terrorism and separatism,” he said.
On the topic -Gupkar Declaration, and the way forward- the AICC member and senior Congress leader Bhan reminded late Indira Gandhi’s remark on the eve of Indira-Shiekh accord of 1975: ” Gadi Ki Suie Pheche Nahi Mudti (time can not be reversed)”.

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