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| Prof Gupta rejects Cong charge over political detentions in Kashmir | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 21: The former Union Minister Prof Chaman Lal Gupta has expressed surprise over the insinuations of the senior Congress leaders that the politicians detained in Kashmir are being treated like "animals" and democracy is being scuttled in J&K post abrogation of Article 370 and 35 A, and what not.
Prof Gupta in a statement said that main complaint is that the detained leaders are kept in captivity when there is severe cold and heating arrangements were not enough as also some other facilities are debarred.
Agreeing that for survival of democracy there should not be vindictiveness. But the history cannot be belied, he added and recalled that in first week of February 1949, the J&K Praja Parishad leader and great visionary, Pandit Prem Nath Dogra was arrested and shifted to Srinagar Jail and lodged in a cell to face the vagaries of the weather and severe cold. He was sixty six years old at that time and was kept there for eight months without any trial.
Prof Gupta also recalled that in 1952, the Praja Parishad had launched a movement against separate Constitution, separate flag and separate head of the State. As many as sixteen youths were gunned down at various places just for hoisting the National Tricolour.
Not only this, Prof. Gupta also pointed out that on May 11, 1953 the towering leader of India as also leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha, Dr Shyama Prashad Mukherji, was arrested and detained in the huts of Gardeners (Malis) of Nishat Bagh, where he expired on the night of 22/23 June 1953 on circumstances shrouded in mystery.
Prof Gupta said that certain mainstream leaders were detained in wake of repealing of much controversial Article 370 and 35A as they had been threatening bloodshed. He said that the complaining leaders of Congress and others should see that many of these politicians have been detained at their own places or in hotels, ministerial bungalows and MLA hostel which are known for the luxurious living. |
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