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Stay away from polls: Mirwaiz
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Friday, 21 March 2014
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‘Elections meant to strengthen occupation’
‘Vajpayee wanted Kashmir to
be addressed outside Indian Constitution’
Srinagar: Urging people to stay away
from the forth coming polls, Chairman Huriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq Friday stated that Kashmir can never be resolved by virtue of
the election process.
According to the reports received by KNS, Mirwaiz after
delivering Friday sermon at Kashmir’s historic grand mosque stated
that the mainstream parties are working on the diktats of New Delhi and that
until India changes its policies vis-à-vis Kashmir, no positive change on
ground is expected to occur. “In every free country, the election process is
the vital part of the democracy but the place where the principles of justice
are rubbed under feet- the election process there is nothing sans strengthening
occupation.”
Maintaining that the election fray can never be the substitute
the right to self-determination, Mirwaiz stated that Kashmir’s pro-freedom camp
has always rejected any election process under the umbrella of Indian
constitution. “Huriyat treats elections as fraud and deceit. It rejects this
process and urges people to reject and stay away from the futile exercise,”
Mirwaiz said amid pro-freedom slogans resonating from the Mosque.
Observing that Kashmir can either be resolved through the
implementation of UN resolutions or through the tri-partite dialogue, Mirwaiz
maintained that the neither the economic packages, nor the jobs and elections
can ever soothe peoples’ blighted hearts in Kashmir.
Meanwhile that statement issued to KNS maintained that
addressing the huge gathering at the Historical Jamia Masjid Srinagar, Chairman
All Parties Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that while in
every nation across the world electoral process is the backbone of its
democratic setup, but as far as Kashmir is concerned it is a futile
exercise which has no value for the people.Infact the
whole process of elections in the state is inimical to the very
idea of democracy. A place where the basic human right ,the right to life
of the population is trampled upon everyday under the boots of the Armed
forces,whose presence makes kasmir the most militarised zone in the world.What
good can elections held in such hostile environment bring to the
people, Mirwaiz asked.
He said that the only purpose these elections serve
is to consolidate Indias contol over the state and to
hoodwink the international community by projeting them as peoples verdict in
favour of india and hence falsely giving them a character of being some
kind of a substitute for the right to self determination guaranteed by the
UN,to the people of kashmir.
Terming the elections in Kashmir as a sham process,
Mirwaiz Said that pro-Indian political parties are actually
representatives of Indian union in Kashmir, Mirwaiz said they were just puppets
whose strings are controlled in New Delhi. In reality, he said military ruled
the Kashmir which was accepted by the former Indian army Chief VK Singh who
said rulers and pro-Indian politicians in Jammu and Kashmir were furthering the
policies of Indian state. He said military was the real face of Indian
democracy in Kashmir.
Therefore, Huriyat Conference while rejecting this
farcical exercise believes that it is best for people to completely
stay away from this deceitful process and hence totally reject it.
While commenting on the forth coming parliamentary polls
, Mirwaiz said that for the people of Kashmir, change of guard is of no
significance, what matters is change of policy viz a viz the issue of kashmir.
He said Atal Bihari Vajpayee during his tenure asked the people of India to
change their traditional mindset and “shed the beaten track” to address the
Kashmir issue outside Indian constitution and within the “ambit of humanity
“and in this context initiated a dialogue with Pakistan and the leadership of
Kashmir. Mirwaiz said any party which comes to power in india and emulates this
outlook, to resolve the kashmir issue and initiates serious dialog with
Pakistan and the leadership of kashmir, will be a welcome step.(KNS)
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