Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 19: General Secretary CPI (M) Sitaram Yechury, today accused Modi Government of tackling Kashmir through military means only and said that talks with all stakeholders including Pakistan can resolve the issue.
Addressing a press conference here, Yechury said that Kashmir is a political problem and till talks aren’t held with all the stakeholders in the State and with Pakistan, this issue can’t be resolved. “CPI (M) believes that withdrawing of AFSPA has to start for confidence building measure. The eroded provisions of Article 370 have to be restored and then only Kashmir will be real ‘atoot aang’ of India. This BJP Government is making assault on Constitution”, he said.
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The CPI (M) leader said that Kashmir is crown of India and to safeguard it is the duty of every Indian. “If crown has any problem, then it is the problem of the whole country. We have been saying it within and outside the Parliament”, he said.
Yechury accused Modi Government of tackling Kashmir through military means only. “The PDP-BJP Government in J&K is a biggest contradiction. Ever since Modi Government took over, Kashmir is being tackled through military means only. I came here twice as a member of Parliamentary delegation. First time it was when UPA-II was in power. But the recommendations of the interlocutors were never implemented. Second time, Home Minister Rajnath Singh led a Parliamentary delegation to Kashmir. When we returned to Delhi, it was discussed that the solution of Kashmir can be achieved through political process and not only through law and order. But ever since, not a single forward step was taken”, he added.
Yechury targeted the Modi Government for making rich richer and poor poorer. “When Manmohan Singh was the PM, 49 percent of the wealth of the country was in the hands of 1 percent people in the country. Today it has changed as 73 percent of the wealth in the country is the hands of just one percent people. To increase the profits of MNCs, Modi government is making policies that suite them but are against the interests of poor”, he said.
“If people of the country want better life, this BJP Government has to go. The BJP is communally polarizing the country for electoral benefits,” he further said.
MLA Kulgam and CPI (M) State General Secretary, Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, said the BJP Government has closed all the doors for Kashmiris. “When any young Kashmiri boy goes for studies to outside State, he is being dragged out of the hostel and mercilessly beaten. A Kashmiri laborer is afraid of going outside. Our request to CPI (M), democratic and secular forces of the country is that if they want to save Kashmir, first India has to be saved from these fascist forces. This poison will spread, and not only will it ruin Kashmir and Jammu, it will spoil the whole country”, he said.
“We will also appeal our Jammu brothers not to fall prey to those elements who want to divide people in the name of religion and region. Who are the people who are trying to shield the rapists and murderers of 8-year-old Asifa of Kathua?, he asked.
The CPI (M) is holding 11th State conference of the Jammu and Kashmir CPI (M), which commenced at SKICC in Srinagar today.
General Secretary CPI (M) Sitaram Yechury, CPI (M) leader and MLA Kulgam Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, member Central Secretariat CPI(M) Joginder Sharma, senior party leaders Sham Prasad Kesar, and Ghulam Nabi Malik were among others who addressed the opening session of the two-day Conference.
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