Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 5: Former Union Minister Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta has ridiculed the rant for plebiscite to decide the future of Kashmir.
According to press release, he said that the much talked UN resolution was adopted in 1948. The first and foremost part of the said resolution was that Pakistan would vacate the J&K held areas and restore the pre-1947 position. But it was never done. The entire population complexion was changed. There were over 35 percent Hindu, Sikh and other minorities in what is now ironically called as Azad Kashmir, he said, adding, "In this part not a single member of the minority community has been left. They were massacred and what so ever left, were forced to have conversion.
He added that in the wake of Indus Water Treaty in 1962, Pakistan has un-authorizdly raised huge structure on the river Jehlum, known as Mangla Dam.
Prof. Gupta ridiculed the boycott call of the election of the basic democracies by the separatists and observed these polls were just to empower the people at the grass root level for preparing and executing the developmental activities. But it sounds strange that separatists do not like even this betterment of the masses. |
