BJP has no workers in JK, but only agents: Muzaffar Shah
Srinagar: The “problem” with BJP in the J&K state is that it has “no worker but only agents have joined them and agents only work till their vested interests are served and once they are fulfilled they shift to others”, Vice President Jammu and Kashmir Awami National Conference Muzaffar Ahmad Shah has alleged.
Shah said this at a press conference on Saturday.
Shah said Union Home Minister recently said that they will be setting up a delimitation commission while as there is ban on the same imposed by state legislative assembly till 2026.
“Any move towards delimitation and increasing seat numbers in Jammu will be illegal and unconstitutional and any decision on the same can be taken only by the state assembly,” he said.
“What is more shocking is that while the decision like this can only be taken by the majority of the house so how can a one man over rule the set legal format,” he added.
Shah said that if any such move takes place, “it will be totally a dictatorial order, since governor is not elected by the voter segments he has no role and mandate to change such setting”.
He further said that the accession to India and state of Jammu and Kashmir was “conditional and was done on the basis of three conditions i.e. defense, foreign affairs and communication and Article 370 was incorporated in the constitution of India”.
“It was by the same article that the state was granted special status and was able to have its own flag, constitution and have its own Sadre Riyasat and these were the symbols by which the special status of the state was symbolized”.
Shah also demanded an end to killings in Kashmir going on in the valley since three decades.
“Nowhere in the world are people killed without even without giving proof that they are part of any violent movement,” he said.
He said that if British had used guns in its war with Indian people “then there would have been no Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Jai Prakash Narain and ever today’s India PM would not have been safe”.
“So many are languishing in Jails without fair trial in the state, they should be immediately released,” Shah said.
“We urge the central government to begin negotiations and dialogue in the state and we will make it clear on them that people of Jammu and Kashmir will not side with those who perpetrated death and destruction over the people of state,” he added.
He hoped that the newly elected members of parliaments will take care of the dignity of the people and won’t let that be trampled upon.
He said that likeminded organizations need to forge unity to save the unity of the state which is being targeted by “people with vested interests”.
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