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| Salahuddin has no right to speak for Kashmir | | Call for boycott | |
Rustam
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 20: As expected, self-styled supreme commander Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and United Jehad Council (UJC) chairman Syed Salahuddin urged the people of Kashmir to boycott the assembly elections. "I appeal to every Kashmiri to completely boycott the sham elections. Taking part or lending support to the process in any way will amount to the betrayal of the blood of tens of thousands of Kashmiri martyrs," he said at Muzaffarafad the other day, adding that the election process in the state cannot be justified in the backdrop of a huge devastation caused by the September flood.
Significantly, Salahuddin also referred to the BJP Mission 44+ and said the New Delhi under Prime Minister NarendraModi would go to any extent to achieve the mission and form the next government in the state.
He criticized the BJP Mission 44+ for two specific reasons. One was that the BJP wants to form the government in the state to abrogate Article 370 and integrate the state fully into India. Modi government is bent upon clinching 44 plus seats in the elections "at all costs for a vested interest" and the motives behind securing simple majority in state assembly elections "by hook or crook" is to do legislation to abrogate Article 370 of Indian Constitution giving special status to J&K, he said.
The other reason was that the BJP, if voted to power in the state, would grant citizenship rights to tens of thousands of refugees from West Pakistan to change the demography of the "Muslim majority state". Salahuddin also went to the extent of saying that Kashmiri people are of no concern to Modi government, as all it is interested in is the land and resources of Jammu and Kashmir and not the Kashmiri people.
Salahuddin has no moral right to speak for J&K. For, he is a Pakistani agent based in PoJK. Ever since the late 1980s, when he migrated to PoJK after he suffered a defeat in the 1987 highly rigged assembly elections, he has been working for the Pakistani cause at the cost of Jammu & Kashmir in general and Kashmir Valley to which he actually belongs in particular. He is on record having said that he is fighting for the state's merger with Pakistan and is not for the Kashmir's independence. On a number of occasions, he also defended the Pakistani stand on the Indus, Chenab and Jhelum waters and attacked India for constructing power projects. Not just this, he himself has repeatedly said that Pakistan's main interest in the state lies in the Indus waters.
How could someone who takes a stand on the state waters that is not consistent with the stand of the Kashmiri parties like the NC and the PDP accuse the BJP of being anti-Kashmiri people when he openly and brazenly advocates the Pakistani line? There is no doubt that the Kashmiri people would reject his boycott call and vote in large numbers this time, as all the political players are putting in all efforts to mobilize the Kashmiri electorate to take part in the ongoing electoral exercise and elect a government of their own choice. It is heartening that all the major political parties - the NC, the PDP, the Congress and the BJP - and even smaller political groups like the People's Democratic From and the Peoples Conference are all working to ensure the maximum possible participation of people in the election. Reports from the Valley also suggest that the people in large numbers are participating in the election rallies the political parties are holding to garner their support. This is an indication that the voter turnout this time could be impressive. |
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