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| Chaman censures NC for Kashmir statement | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 11
Sharply reacting over the suggestion of National Conference and other leaders of Kashmir division that Kashmir issue should not be given the back seat in having friendly relations with Pakistan, the former Union Minister and a senior leader of the BJP, Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta has observed that as far as Jammu and Kashmir is concerned, its future has been sealed with India since 1947, when the late Maharaja Hari Singh had signed the instrument of Accession. The only problem that remains to be settled, is that of liberation of Pak-held areas for which the Parliament had adopted a Unanimous Resolution in 1994, Gupta said.
Chaman said that under the Constitution, Jammu and Kashmir is an irrevocable part of India and those who want the settlement of Kashmir issue right now, should come out that want really they desire. Targeting the Congress for creating uncertainties about the future of this state, the BJP leader said that it was a folly on their part that Jammu and Kashmir was granted so-called special status. Thought it was a temporary provision under Article 370, but this communal approach is still being retained which cause many evils and problems in this part of the country. These also include fundamentalism, separatism and terrorism, he added.
He assailed the protagonists of autonomy and self-rule, and questioned that if the constitution is good for over hundred crores of other Indians including several millions of Muslims, they should explain that what was wrong particularly for some lakh of those Kashmiri Muslims who want some changes in the constitution, the demand should be for whole of the country and not for some people who are having communal mindset, he asserted.
He strongly opposed to linking of autonomy and that of limited accession to India with the Indian relationship with the theoretic state of Pakistan.
He said BJP would oppose tooth and nail to any reversal of the integration process and the party has made it clear many a times, he pointed out and alleged Congress was responsible for such tendencies because it had never a clear cut Kashmir policy right from Accession of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947. |
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