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| Why oppose demand for CM from Jammu? | | `Kashmiris were better placed during Dogra rule’ | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 30: A former Plebiscite Front (PF) member’s son , Ghulam Muhammad Khan admits Kashmiris were better placed during Dogra rule. According to him, Kashmiris should not oppose Jammu Bar association’s demand for a Chief Minister from Jammu. Pertinent to mention, the BAJ put forth this demand last week during their meeting with New Delhi’s nominated interlocutors on Jammu Kashmir.
Khan said Maharaja Hari Singh did not believe in preventive detention laws. “He allowed judiciary to flourish. There were no fake encounters and no enforced disappearances”, he said.
On the contrary, Khan said, Sher-e-Kashmir framed the `draconian’ Public Safety Act (PSA) after assuming power in1975. “He was also responsible for eroding supremacy of judiciary”, he said.
Citing the history of what he called state oppression, Khan, said: “What have Chief Ministers of Kashmiri origin done for the hapless Kashmiri? Sher-e-Kashmir’s PSA has been recklessly and indiscriminately used to crush dissent. Even boys in the age group of 12-14 have been detained under this draconian legislation.”In 1984, when Sher-e-Kashmir’s son-in-law, Late Ghulam Muhammad Shah dethroned Dr Farooq Abdullah, he extended the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Prevention Act (TADA) to the state. “Hundreds of political activists were booked under this law in the three years he stayed in power”, he said.Khan added Dr Farooq Abdullah constituted the `notorious’ Special Operations Group (SOG) in 1996. “This force wreaked havoc in the state. Soon after, he became he extended Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) to the state. In fact Jammu Kashmir became the first state to extend and implement this law. In my state it was extended when it was still an ordinance. Then it was called POTO”, he lamented. Khan said Mufti Muhammad Sayed suspended POTA and the SOG. “While POTA still remains suspended, the SOG continued to operate in his regime and it is operational even now. And when Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and Disturbed Area Act became operational in Kashmir, Mufti Sayed was the Home Minister of India ”, he said. When asked whether a Chief Minister from Jammu would be any different, he had a handy `diplomatic’ answer. “Why should I or any other Kashmiri for that matter agitate for a Chief Minister from the Valley especially when they have subjected the people to inconvenience?”
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