Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 24: Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo, senior BJP & Kashmiri Pandit leader, incharge, BJP’s Department of Political Affairs & Feedback today said that the OIC has no locus standi in Kashmir affairs. Any sort of intervention by any external force is rejected lock, stock and barrel.
While referring to the statement issued by the OIC a couple of days earlier Chrungoo emphasized that Jammu and Kashmir is a settled issue and what was to be yet settled has been done on August 5 and last year by the Parliament of India by abrogating Article 370 and 35A. “The division of Jammu and Kashmir State into two Union Territories is a historical step and it paves way of democratic and Constitutional institutions in the two UTs to thrive and deliver to the benefit of the people”, he added.
In n a statement issued here, he said that the OIC needs to learn lessons from the stand taken by Saudi Arabia, UAE, Indonesia and other important Islamic countries which termed abrogation of Article 370 as an internal matter of India last year. “Raking up the human rights issue of the people in Jammu and Kashmir, the OIC should have instead talked about the human rights violations of the Hindu-Sikh minorities in the UT of J&K perpetrated by the Islamic terrorists for the last more than three decades”.
He added that, “the crimes against humanity committed by the Pakistan supported and sponsored by terrorists in J&K caused death, destruction, extermination, rape, loot and plunder in the J&K region, and the OIC ought to have mustered courage to call a spade and spade”.
Chrungoo appealed to the Government of India to take all necessary steps to translate the will expressed in the Parliamentary resolution of 1994 which clearly calls for liberation of the areas under illegal occupation of Pakistan. “The Government should also designate the areas under Chinese illegal occupation as “China occupied Ladakh” like Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir”.
He expressed appreciation of the role of the US in the United Nations to block a move of Pakistan to designate an Indian national Venumadhav Dongara, an engineer with an Indian construction company in Afghanistan, as a terrorist.
“This speaks volumes about the diplomatic relations India has developed and also about the position of Pakistan in the global community comprising 200 odd nations, after the abrogation of Article 370”, he added.
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