Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 6: Reports of People’s Alliance of Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) vowing to continue struggle for restoration of legitimate rights on the occasion of the second anniversary of the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status are nothing new but a face saving exercise and one more attempt to mislead the people of Kashmir in particular.
Balbir Ram Rattan, spokesperson of Jammu and Kashmir BJP, said this while terming the PAGD’s pledge for continuing with the struggle for restoration of legitimate rights as an outdated ‘trailer’ of the decades old politics of the Valley-centric regional parties, which had been running their shops on emotional slogans by misleading the people and did nothing except promoting dynastic politics.
Balbir said that the NC and PDP in particular, should explain to the people as to what they mean by talking of legitimate rights. “The people have every right to know what legitimate rights in the dictionaries of these parties mean”, Balbir said and added that NC and PDP never cared for even basic rights of the people when they were on steering seat while running the successive Governments in Jammu and Kashmir, prior to abrogation of Article 370 and 35A and its reorganisation.
The BJP spokesperson questioned the votaries of Article 370 to first clear whether demanding citizenship was not legitimate right of refugees or seeking right over parental properties by daughter of the soil was not a legitimate right? If it is really serious about rights of the people, they should first come clean of their own role in the past, when they denied various sections of the society of their rights and then only talk on the issue.
Those talking of legitimate rights should let people know where they were and why silent on the rights of lakhs of Kashmiri Hindu who were forced to leave their homes and hearths in Kashmir to escape their physical liquidation and for honour of their families, questioned Balbir.
Balbir said that the reality is different. The PAGD have turned issueless and in frustration after the abrogation of Article 370, under which they had set up monopoly over everything in J&K, with least concern for development, welfare and rights of people.
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