Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 23: India should strongly contest for PoK at international level, said former Governor of J&K, Lt General (retd) SK Sinha adding there is no difference between Farooq Kathwari’s report of February 2005 and Musharraf plan, both seeking division of J&K on religious lines. He regretted on the irony that India is toeing the same line.
Sinha said this while speaking in a seminar organised by J&K Study centre at New Delhi, which was attended by many parliamentarians of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
“Solution of PoK should come from the common people and not from Pakistani funded separatists and politicians. If India today agrees to NC’s demand of autonomy, tomorrow they have to fulfill PDP’s demand asking for more and then separatists’ demand, he said, advising India to draw a line to stop these things and not to lower its guard.
Panthers Party MLA Balwant Singh Mankotia while speaking said that there is a need for reorganization of J&K State so that Assembly and Lok Sabha seats are determined on the basis of population thereby ending the political imbalance with Jammu and Ladakh. Reorganisation of J&K is necessary in the interest of India’s integrity and independence, he added.
Advocating his demand of trifurcation of J&K State, Ashwani Sharma, MLA Jammu State Morcha, said there is nothing common between the Kashmir valley and Jammu and Ladakh regions as far as topography, language, style of living and necessities are concerned.
“West Pakistani refugees are facing the worst type of discrimination, as they have no right to vote in the Panchayat, local bodies and MLA elections in J&K”, he maintained.
Ex-MLA and chairman, J&K Tehreek-e-Insaf, Mohd Farooq Mir stated that the nationalist forces are being treated step motherly in the State and the terrorism victims of Jammu region are at the edge of starvation and despite Supreme Court’s ruling nothing has been done for Jammu migrants.
Senior BJP leader, Dr Nirmal Singh alleged that Article 370 is the root cause for all the problems in J&K, as it denies the justice to the common man and beneficiaries of this Article are some political families only.
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