Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 10: Terming the recommendations of the Joint Parliamentary Committee for settling the West Pakistan refugees permanently in the J&K as anti-State, general secretary of National Conference, Ali Mohammad Sagar today said that such recommendations are aimed at changing the demography of Jammu and Kashmir.
Sagar while addressing the District Working Committees meetings from district Baramulla and district Kupwara, said that the recommendations of Joint Parliamentary Committee are unacceptable and is a wicked conspiracy to temper the special status of Jammu And Kashmir State.
“The Joint Parliamentary Committee’s recommendations for the permanent settlement of West Pakistan refugees in the State is wicked conspiracy to change the demography of the State and to alter the special status enjoyed by Jammu and Kashmir State,” Sagar said while addressing the meetings.
He said the anti-Jammu and Kashmir elements, since the day one have been implying different tactics to change the demography of the State and today they have raked up such issue again.
“Different parliamentary committees have recommended many different things for the State like the return of the power projects to J&K, restoration of autonomy, and revoking the black laws like AFSPA from the State, but all the Governments there in Centre binned these recommendations,” Sagar said adding “Now that the another JPC has made recommendations for settling West Pakistan refugees, and giving them the citizenship and voting rights, Central Government seems like in a hurry to make this happen as soon as possible; we can smell a rat in these recommendations.”
He said conspiracies like these were even hatched in 2008, when there were attempts to transfer land to shrine board, which was a dangerous attempt to fiddle with special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
He said to protect the Article 370 and the State Subject law; National Conference can offer any kind of sacrifice. “It’s highly unfortunate that some regional parties are part and parcel of these conspiracies, the example of which is PDP,” he said.
The meetings were also attended by senior NC leaders, Chowhdhary Mohammad Ramzan and others.
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