Excelsior Correspondent
AHMEDABAD, Apr 29: Terming Kashmiriyat a facade, Panun Kashmir (PK) today said that the people of Jammu, Ladakh and the community of Kashmiri Pandits have to do nothing with the so called Kashmiriyat.
In an interaction with media persons here, today P K president, Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo made it clear that all of them (the people of other two regions of J&K and KPs) owe their allegiance to the Indianness, Indian cultural ethos and the Indian Constitution. The grand design of Muslim precedence cannot be saddled upon the nationalist people in Jammu and Kashmir under the garb of Kashmiriyat, he added.
He said “ the recent incidence of violence and stone pelting in Kashmir has created a difficult situation for the Government. The stone pelting though has been adopted as a means to cover the terror campaign in Kashmir at present, yet it was a part of the Muslim majoritarianism politics in Kashmir since 1931. The stone pelting has been a part of the political culture of Kashmir for the last one hundred years, he added.
He said the minority community of the Pandits used to be the first target of the stone pelting culture initially, then this practice was used to settle scores with political rivals in Kashmir and now it has been given a new ‘stature’ by linking it with Pan-Islamic Intifada fundamentalist movement and global terrorism in Kashmir.
It should not be astonishing to note that the so-called mainstream politicians of the Valley have come out in support of the stone pelters, he said, adding in fact they have themselves used this ‘state of the art’ of Kashmir for a long time whenever it suited their political ends and also in order to crush their political rivals.
Chrungoo said in the political idiom, Kashmiri politicians have tried to befool the vast political class and the general public of the Indian nation by propagating the facade of Kashmiriyat all along. The coinage of the so-called Kashmiriyat was a deliberate attempt to hoodwink the public opinion because of the fact that it actually delinks Kashmir with its glorious past, ancient history, civilization and the cultural tradition, he added.
He said time has come for discussion and debate on the subject as to how the people who do not subscribe to the ongoing strife in Kashmir can be freed from the clutches of Kashmir centric political class who day in and day out obey the dictation of the Pakistan supported separatist-fundamentalist-terrorist combine in Kashmir. The Government of India needs to take a tough stand to instill confidence in the nationalist forces in the State and pave way for some tough security and political decisions. Creation of Homeland for Hindus and the other minorities of Kashmir in the Valley is one of those tough decisions. “We demand that the Government should urgently hold a dialogue with the representatives of the displaced community of the Pandits on this issue since the Pandits are the indigenous people of the Kashmir valley and have an inalienable right on the territory of Kashmir as the first and primary stakeholders to the territory of Kashmir’’.
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