JKNC:Assertions of Ram Madhav far from reality
Says Article 370 abrogation pushed J&K into ‘chasm of uncertainty’
Tribune News Service
Srinagar, July 14
The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) on Tuesday rejected the assertions of BJP general secretary Ram Madhav where he had claimed that the leaders of regional parties were not under house arrest, but unwilling to resume political activities.
“The National Conference has never hesitated in representing people’s aspirations; we have always been at the forefront when it has come to representing people’s aspirations. We have never run away from our obligations. But, how can any political activity be started at this juncture when most of the political leaders are still under house detention since the unconstitutional scrapping of Articles 370, Article 35 A. Those who were released from detention centres were kept detained in their homes. So far, the government has only been revolving doors of detention. The way people’s representatives, former MLAs, ministers; sitting MPs, political activists are being treated since August 5, 2019 speaks volumes about the BJP’s repugnance for democratic institutions and elected representatives in J&K,” JKNC chief spokesperson Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi said in a statement.
Flaying the unilateral and “unconstitutional” decision of the abrogation of Article 370 by the BJP, Ruhullah said: “Here we have him serve us lectures on democracy given that they were ones who despoiled the very fragile edifice of democracy in J&K. Starting from undermining established norms of a parliamentary democracy by using the then Governor’s office to the caging of all representative voices in the run up for axing the identity of the state, the BJP didn’t leave any devious scheme unused to raze the edifice of democracy, painstakingly achieved by the National Conference. There is little to show that the purpose of abrogating Art 370 has been achieved or is anywhere near being achieved,”
“On the contrary, the BJP is facing public wrath in Jammu, Kargil, Pirpanjal and Chenab Valley. The decisions of August 5 have inversely pushed the entire region into a chasm of uncertainty, which the BJP is unable to grapple with despite having the entire government apparatus at their side” he added.
Meanwhile, party’s senior leader and Member of Parliament from Baramulla, Mohammad Akbar Lone while talking to the media too censured Madhav for his ‘foul-mouthed jibes’ against party’s vice-president Omar Abdullah.
