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| Prof Gupta condemns killing of Chander Kant Sharma | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 13: Emphasizing for fresh security audit of Kishtwar-Doda areas, the former Union Minister, Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta has condemned the inhuman act of killing of a dedicated activist, Shri Chander Kant Sharma and his PSO in day light at Kishtwar hospital.
He stated that the dastardly act was the part of the deep rooted old design to create communal chaos and force out the minorities from the hilly belt which has been mysteriously named as Chenab Valley and had been on the target of Pak-sponsored separatists and the radicals after forcing out the minorities and nationalists from their abode in Kashmir, which was known as land of Saints and Sufis spelling out peace and harmony.
In a statement, Prof. Gupta recalled that the trouble in Doda-Kishtwar areas had started in early nineties with the massacre of as many as sixteen bus passengers near Kishtwar at Sarthal Road. After these gruesome killings, the leading lawyer and a popular figure, Santosh Thakur, the district President of the BJP, was gun down in the open at Doda district headquarter itself.
He further stated that all this caused an alarm and the BJP launched a Satyagrah movement in 1993, to "Save Doda". In this movement thousands of activists of BJP including top leaders like Atal Behari Vajpayee, L. K Advani, Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi and others reached Jammu to Court arrests with the objective of focusing attention of all the concerned to the developing grave situation in this belt.
To stem the wrought the large number of village Defence Committees were organized to generate a sense of confidence amongst the nationalists several other measures were taken especially after the Vajpayee led NDA Government came to power in late nineties, he added and pointed out that the evil designs of the radicals could be gauged that between 1992 to 2002, in the State the Pak sponsored terrorists had enacted as many as about 60 incidents of massacres butchering hundreds of innocent civilians including children and women to spread terror. Out of these as many as 39 were recorded in this hilly belt.
Prof. Gupta also pointed that over the years several prominent leaders have been killed in these areas including Swami Raj Katal, Rochar Kumar, Satish Bhandari and others, Recently Anil Parihar and his brother Ajit Parihar were gunned down indicating the designs of the enemy of peace and tranquility. All this needs a very serious attention by all the concerned, he added.
Prof. Gupta, who represented the Udhampur-Doda Lok Sabha Constituency thrice in the Parliament, also reminded that the erstwhile Doda district was carved out under communal considerations in 1948, despite protests by great visionary leader. Pt. Prem Nath Dogra who headed the Praja Parishad. But he was dubbed as communal and subjected to great hardships including the jails without any trial.
He also pointed out that after the deposition and arrest of Sheikh Mohd Abdullah by his own colleagues in 1953, this very district of Doda had come to be the hub of anti national activities under the banner of Kashmir Plebiscite Front till 1975, when the Sheikh resumed power in wake of his Accord with Smt. Indira Gandhi and this Front was disbanded.
Prof. Gupta said that this hilly belt needed constant review of the security related matters and deep look into each incident like that of recent ones and the enemies of the peace to be exposed and dealt with under law of the land. |
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