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| Student body trashes WG Report | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 28: ‘The fifth working group re-commendation submitted by retd Justice Sagir Ahmad is a non-serious move as far as the aspiration of the 40% minorities of the Jammu and Kashmir state are concerned’, said Mahesh Kaul of Sangarsh, a movement of justice, equality and peace at a press conference here today.
He said report has taken the minorities of the state for granted as every attempt has been made in the report to sideline their nationalist and pro-India voice. The report is an attempt to revitalize the and renew the 1953 status of the state and hence delink the state from the national mainstream and reduce the minorities of the state to the hostages to majoritarian separatist forces of the Kashmir valley. He questioned the rationale behind the assertion in the report regarding the restoration and strengthening the autonomy in the context of the article 370, when it was supposed to be temporary in reality. He said the report has also exposed both the concepts of autonomy and self rule as the two sides of the same coin meant to dilute the Indian sovereignty over J&K.
Kaul expressed serious apprehensions about “the flawed role played by the Indian Political establishment and the policy makers first in terms of quiet diplomacy and now the controversial recommendations of the Justice Sagir report and added it brings to the light the political consensus in India to give concessions to the separatists and the so called mainstream parties at the cost of the nationalist aspirations of the minorities of the state.
He said the communal content and the discrimination content in the report are clear as it is opposed to the delimitation of the constituencies in the Jammu region, and the outright rejection of the Union territory status to the Ladakh and trivialization of the ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Kashmiri Hindus by reducing their plight to that of only security issue is mockery in itself. The report has also failed to recognize the plight of west Pakistan refugees, who have been reduced to aliens and non entities in their own states.
Kaul further said report needs to be out rightly rejected as it has not taken into confidence even the members of the working group and aptly all the members have disassociated themselves from the working group. Moreover, the working group was constituted by the Prime Minister then what is the logic of submitting the report to the chief minister?
Among others who also addressed the media were Ranjeet Sharma, Suresh Kumar senior members of the Sangarsh.
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