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| Hurriyat not true spokesman of people of J&K: Sinha | | | New Delhi, Sept. 16 : Jammu and Kashmir Governor S K Sinha today took a dig at the Hurriyat Conference saying the perception that the separatist group represented the people of the state was wrong as they did not have representatives from all regions.
"The media projection that, both within our country and internationally, makes you feel that the separatist elements are the true spokesmen of the people of Kashmir. I think that is very misleading.
"The Hurriyat as they are called and even other separatist groups, they do not have a single person in their organisation from the non-Kashmiri speaking people in the Valley nor the Hindus or Sikhs," Sinha said after releasing a book 'Solving Kashmir' by a top former army officer Lt Gen Mohan Bhandari here.
"There is not one group, there are four or five of them, apart from the main political parties. So choose for yourself who the true representatives are", he said.
Asserting that he had noticed tremendous appreciation for army's civic assistance programmes for the locals, Sinha said Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's ideas of self-rule, joint control and demilitarization did not have any relevance.
"Wherever I have gone in the state, there has been a demand for army. Army has been the mainstay of innovative civic action programmes after the devastating earthquake and the floods. There is a demand that development assistance should be given through the army.
"In this context, I am at loss to understand when people talk of self-rule, joint control, demilatarisation. What exactly do they mean? Musharraf has given these out of the box solutions," he said
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