Sangarsh-A movement for Justice, Equality, Peace, Prosperity and Brotherhood 0n 09/11/2009 strongly condemned the statement of the Union Minister and patron of the National Conference Dr. Farooq Abdullah that "we are a muslim majority area and proud of it". In a press conference held at University of Jammu, which was jointly addressed by Mr. Ranjeet Sharma, President, Mr. Suresh Kumar, General Secretary and Mr. Mahesh Kaul, Organising Secretary of the movement respectively.
They termed the statement of Dr. Farooq Abdullah as unfortunate as it has sent wrong signals among the miniorities of the state. The state is a sensitive area as it is engulfed by the ethno-religious conflict since last two decades and has witnessed tremendous demographic change in terms of the internal displacement of the people which started with the armed conflict in the state. This statement is against the secular and democratic constititutional set up of the Indian Union, they expressed.
They said that in a recent visit the Union Home Minister P. Chidambarm had said that the central government was serious about the return and rehabilition of the displaced Kashmiri Pandits. The statement made by Dr. Farooq Abdullah reflects the mindset of the majority community of the valley. If this is the case then the state is moving towards the further deterioration of the situation. If this is the mental state of the political class then rehabilitation of the miniorities in their natural bahitat is impossible.
They observed that there is a serious threat to sovereignty and interigty of the Indian nation as far as the policy of the central government towards the Jammu and Kashmir is concerned. many people and organisations have commented about the statements made by the P. Chidambaram regarding the "quiet diplomacy and unique solution" but the focal point of the statement made by him that "There are other political parties which do not participate in elections and have their set of views. There are extreme voices, which call for secession and separate nation. We accept it and it is the reality" . If the Indian state is thinking on these lines to solve the jammu and Kashmir issue then there is no doubt that the nationalistic Indian people are being kept in dark. Something is cooking behind the scenes to dilutethe Indian sovereignty over the state. We see a link between the statements the Dr. Abdullah regarding the muslim majority status of the state and the Chidambaram's statement that he accepts that there are voices for separate nation in the state, claimed Sangarshi's.
They revealed that in this context the return and rehabilition of Kashmiri Pandits to their homeland in the present disposition is fraught with serious consequences and these statements made by these senior leaders justify as to why the Kashmiri Pandits were forced to live in exile in their own state and own country.They were flanked by Suraj Singh, Spokesperson, Nitin Sharma and Meenakshi Anand, Joint Secretaries.
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