The National Conference (NC) on Saturday stated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statements on “hugging Kashmiris” and turning Kashmir right into a paradise sound hole and belie actions taken by his authorities.
Now we see PM Modi parroting new catch-words. These catch-words are hole and can finally vanish into oblivion, the social gathering stated in an announcement.
Asserting that the social gathering rejects the prime minister’s rants, the NC stated persons are the perfect decide of the veracity of Modi’s earlier catch-words of “Kashmiriyat, Jhamooriyat and Insaniyat”.
“The government led by PM Modi has obliterated the very visage of Kashmiriyat by bifurcating the state. The jhamooriyat rant too turned out to be a damp squib following the detention of legitimate political voices of the state,” stated the NC assertion.
“The PM’s insaniyat rant too turned out to be a moist squib following the unparalleled clampdown within the state within the form of communication gags and curfews, it stated.
The social gathering stated Modi’s dream of ‘Naya (new) Kashmir’ is to “disempower folks” of the state.
By turning the state of Jammu and Kashmir into (two) Union territories, the lieutenant governor, chief minister and different elected functionaries of the Jammu and Kashmir Union territory might be confined far behind within the protocol as in comparison with when J&Okay was a state, it stated.
The assertion stated jobs and scholarships which in any other case had been solely reserved for state topics would stop to be solely out there to the youths of the state.
By eradicating the protection valve of the state within the form of Article 370 and Article 35-A, the folks of the state, irrespective of their caste, creed and faith have develop into susceptible of quite a few susceptibilities,” stated the NC assertion.
The social gathering accused the Centre of attempting to place the state land on sale ignoring the truth that farmers in a mountainous Jammu and Kashmir have very low land-holdings.
“The state is mountainous and as such landholding of the farmers are very small as in comparison with the farmers in the remaining of the nation.
Today, we see how the federal government of India and the native administration is persistent on placing up the land of the state on wanton sale with out giving a thought to the plethora of socio-political, ecological and political points that may pop up following such a transfer, the social gathering stated.
The NC stated the trail on which the Centre was treading, would finally result in socio-political disempowerment of the folks of Kashmir.
It will undo what good was achieved by the successive NC-led governments within the state. People of the state have understood the fact and no gimmickry can beguile them. They are the perfect judges. They are seeing for themselves as to how the federal government has sucked the life and blood of the folks of the state by unilaterally and unconstitutionally scrapping Article 370 and Article 35-A, the NC stated.
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