NPP disowns Bhim Singh’s statement over Hurriyat

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 2:  An emergency meeting of JKNPP presided over by  Harsh Dev Singh chairman and attended by  Balwant Singh Mankotia State president and  Yash Paul Kundal State president Young Panthers besides senior leaders of the party was held today in Jammu to deliberate upon party affairs especially the statement made by Prof  Bhim Singh over Hurriyat leaders.
The party leaders in one voice disapproved the statement of Prof Bhim Singh describing Hurriyat Conference as a nationalist movement. “We disown the statement of Prof Bhim Singh wherein he has described Hurriyat leaders as nationalists. The party does not stand on the same page as Prof Bhim so far as his statement with regard to Hurriyat Conference and alleged atrocities on Kashmiri youth or their human rights violations was concerned” said the Panther leaders in a joint statement.
Harsh Dev alleged that Hurriyat leaders have all along been indulging in hate India campaign and acting as touts of Pakistan. He said the Hurriyat had pushed Kashmir into a vortex of violence and were responsible for violence, turmoil and spilling blood of innocents in Kashmir. Despite availing all facilitates from Govt of India, they were promoting separatists agenda in Kashmir which was intolerable, Singh said.
Mankotia and Kundal while seeking withdrawal of all facilities, security and other privileges given to Hurriyat leaders said that NPP opposes any kind of concessions given to anti-nationals. They said that Prof Bhim Singh’s statement on Hurriyat leaders could be his personal opinion and the party dis-associates itself from it. They further called upon the party leaders to refrain from making any statement on policy matters without the approval of the party chairman.