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Bhullar decision reopens Kashmir’s wounds: Mehbooba
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Monday, 31 March 2014
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‘PDP will build democratic resistance to such double
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Bhullar the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti Monday said
it is another example of double-standards displayed vis-à-vis Kashmir and with
every such development as like the latest by the Apex Court or its earlier
verdict on convicts who have been on death row the wounds of Kashmiris are
re-opened.
According to a statement issued to KNS, while addressing
various roadside meetings in Tral segment of Anantanag constituency, Mehbooba
said such discriminatory approach about Kashmir needs to be responded
forcefully to prevent their repetition in future and that will call for an
united and strong response at political level and through democratic
institutions.
She said the National Conference, which should have
represented the sentiments of the people of the state, unfortunately,
collaborated in the hanging of Mohammad Afzal Guroo in the most inhuman manner
by even denying him a last customary meeting with his family.
Mehbooba said such an approach will perpetuate the
feeling of discrimination which makes the task of reconciliation even more
difficult than it has always been because of the wrong policies followed by NC
and its allies.
She said Guroo will keep Kashmir reminding of the
miscarriage of justice in the entire process leading him up to gallows.
Mehbooba said the PDP’s agenda is to prevent such things
in future and the party will work to uphold the sentiments of people and
protect the interests of the state, which has always been supreme for it than
power and will build democratic resistance to such double-standards.
The PDP chief said her party is having a positive agenda
for the Kashmir issue and the issues of Kashmir both at the state as well as
national level and it will revive the reconciliation and reconstruction process
it had started in 2002.
Mehbooba said people of J&K have been
discriminated in all respects whether it is the practices followed the
democratic processes or governance with the result corruption, misgoverance and
unaccountability has not been checked the way it should have been. She said if
cases like Haji Yousuf, Cricket Scam, Drug Scam, PHE Scam, Land Grab scandal,
recruitment frauds, molestation case involving Shabir Khan, ex-health minister
would have happened in any other part of the country situation would have been
altogether different and the culprits would not have been roaming free as it is
happening here.
“This all leads to one inference that J&K is being
treated differently when it comes to the enforcement of law. Here action
against anybody is brushed under carpet as if investigating cases of corruption
and other malpractices will mean assault on the integrity of the country,” she
said.
She said if voted to parliament the PDP will strive to
build a national consensus on Kashmir issue by involving various shades of
public and political opinion both in and outside the parliament so that the
prevailing mistrust between New Delhi and Kashmir is minimized and there is a
forward movement on Kashmir resolution.
She said the NC has never been serious about the state
and its people and it has always played a damaging role through its repeated
sell-outs, U-turns and treachery with the result there has been no headway in
resolving the Kashmir issue over the last 60 years.
Mehbooba said PDP during its brief stint in the
government not only changed the people’s perception about politics but it
played a pivotal role in changing the political discourse about Kashmir issue,
which was otherwise seen only through security perspective. She said an
atmosphere was created in the state which gave a hope that things can be
changed, if taken seriously. (KNS)
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