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| It Is Repetition of 1990, Says Ghulam Nabi Azad | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 3: Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, also the former Chief Minister, said that what is happening in Kashmir these days is exactly what happened in 1990. He said that Jagmohan provided the transport buses to the Kashmiri Pandit the same way, the governor's administration is providing free transport to the tourists and yatris to leave Kashmir against their wishes and the wishes of the host population.
"The VP Singh government was supported by BJP and the party pressurised the Prime Minister to appoint Jagmohan as governor against the wishes of Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah," Azad said in a press conference after the Congress's Core Group on Kashmir met to discuss the prevailing situation in Kashmir. "Jagmohan later provided free transport to the Kashmiri Pandits to leave for Jammu."
Azad said Jagmohan was BJP choice and not that of V P Singh. He said the Pandit exodus from Kashmir or their killings took place in BJP government. Thirty years later, Azad said, the same thing is happening now. He said the governor's administration has ordered the tourists and the pilgrims to Amarnath to leave and they are being provided with the free transport. Azad said that there is no justification. "The only thing that they have shown is a landmine and a sniper," Azad said. "In my era, there were hundreds of such snipers and there were instances when a lot of landmines were laid for us. This is nothing new."
"The Prime Minister should make statements in both houses of Parliament on the current situation in Jammu and Kashmir. It's his duty," Azad said. He also said that the government should clarify why additional paramilitary forces were sent to the state though it has been a lean year in terms of terrorist activities, barring the Pulwama attack.
Azad said that Article 35A is something that has been there since 1927. "If a provision is there in eight northeastern states and Himachal Pradesh, Uttrakhand and where you cannot purchase land, why is Jammu and Kashmir being singled out," Azad asked. "It is being done because doing this in Jammu and Kashmir will create a situation that will help get BJP to get more votes." In most of these states, BJP is in power.
The former Chief Minister said that BJP does not see what happens to Kashmir. "It actually sees how it will get benefitted by what it is doing to Kashmir," he asserted. "They are already in power in Jammu and Kashmir and now they want to en-cash the Kashmir cheques in other states." |
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