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JAMMU: KPC condemned BJP led NDA Government at the Centre for its shift in policy towards the Kashmiri separatists including Hurriyat by allowing them to meet any representative and other worldwide leaders in India, be it Pakistan.
KPC Chief, Kundan Kashmiri stated that earlier the same BJP had termed the separatists “anti-nationals” and had been demanding that they should be put behind bars and this shift of BJP’s policy towards Kashmiri separatists is clearly shows that it is working tacitly and systematically on the Alliance of Agreement it has earlier reached with PDP. This was one of the main demands of PDP to BJP leaders before and after reaching with an alliance to engaging Hurriyat in the dialogue.
This policy shift towards separatist, Hurriyat and other pro-militant organisations in the Valley clearly indicates the center Govt, led by BJP succumbed under the pressure of PDP leadership as well as Pakistan, when the same BJP, led Government at center had cancelled the then foreign secretary’s visit to Islamabad in August, 2014 in a reaction to Pakistani High Commissioner Abdul Basit meeting with Hurriyat leaders and raised objection to Pak Ambassador Abdul Basit for calling Hurriyat and other separatists at the Pakistan Day (2016) celebration in Delhi.
Kundan kashmiri said that such a stand can prove detrimental for the integrity and sovereignty of country and can compel citizens to ponder that whether the present Central Government is taking India towards a right direction or not? Is Government bowing before separatists or changing its earlier stand? “Centre has to make it clear to countrymen especially to Kashmiri Pandits who are the foremost stakeholders of the State of Jammu and Kashmir and it is quite bizarre that Central Government has allowed separatists who always recite devotional songs of Pakistan to have talks with anyone they want.
KPC would like to remind present Central Government that Lok Sabha unanimously passed the resolution in 1996 which reads “Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) is an integral part of India and it shall be vacated” but the statement of General V K Singh which reads that separatists are Indian citizens and they can meet any representative of any country quite ill-timed and against the interest of country.
The similar views were expressed by the other KPC leaders which include Senior Vice President Tej Pandita, General Secretary Dr. H.L Saraf, Organizing Secretary Susheel Bhat and Secretary R.L Raina.