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| Separatists declare war on BJP's plan of composite townships for KPs | | JKLF calls for shutdown as Yasin Malik threatens fast unto death | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 8: Minutes after a separatist-turned-mainstream leader and independent MLA Engineer Rashid said in Assembly that the BJP-PDP coalition's plan of settling the Kashmiri displaced Pandits in "composite townships" would be fought "tooth and nail" by the Kashmiris, JKLF Chairman Yasin Malik called for shutdown in Kashmir while threatening a "fast unto death strike" if the Narendra Modi government proceeded with the programme of rehabilitating the migrant population in delineated settlements.
The second time MLA Engineer Rashid, who comes from the slain separatist leader Abdul Gani Lone's Peoples Conference and pursues a pseudo-separatist agenda in Assembly, agitated the matter aggressively. He said: "Settling Kashmiri Pandits in separate townships will not be allowed to happen as it is detrimental to interest of every community living in Kashmir. The fact of the matter is that majority of Kashmiri Pandits is not interested in settling back in Kashmir as they are happy in enjoying perks, packages and privileges" . He said that PDP patron and Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was "unfortunately acting as a facilitator in the grand plan of the BJP brigade to communalize and polarize situation in Jammu and Kashmir".
Rashid refused to accept that the Kashmiri Pandits had suffered enormously in the last 25 years of militancy. "It is the Kashmiri Muslims who have suffered a great deal", he asserted with a threat: "Right-minded people and sane voices will not allow getting Kashmir converted into jungle of fascism and aboriginality of this land will be protected at all costs".
In Srinagar, JKLF Chairman Yasin Malik stole the show with a hurriedly called news conference. He dismissed the government's plan of rehabilitating the displaced Pandits in composite townships as a "sinister conspiracy" by the BJP-RSS fold. He alleged that Mufti had been assigned the task of "creating a wedge between different religious identities" in the State. Malik called a complete shutdown in the Valley on Saturday and threatened to go on fast unto death if the government did not withdraw the plan of settling the Kashmiri migrants in protected enclaves.
"We don't want confrontation but we are not going to tolerate attempts aimed at driving a wedge between different communities of the State either. We will not allow creation of this so-called composite township. It would be a state within the state and is fraught with dangerous consequences", Malik said. He claimed that over 10,000 Pandits had stayed back in the valley in 1990 and they had never been harmed by their Muslim neighbours.
"They are continuously living with full sense of security and comfort", said the separatist whose guerrilla group JKLF is alleged to have played key role in attacking the members of the minority community and forcing their mass exodus in 1990. Malik claimed that Valley's tradition of communal harmony was intact.
"It seems RSS now wants to reverse it by creating a wedge between Kashmir's various communities. It is attempting through the BJP to set the Valley on fire. Yeh log nafrat ki aag lagana chahtay hain," militant-turned-politician Malik alleged. "Are Mufti Sayeed and his RSS and BJP mentors now planning to dismantle these temples, homes, shops and schools and relocate these people to so-called composite townships?"Malik asked.
"They are as good state subjects as you and me. They can come and buy properties and rebuild or renovate their houses here. That alone will strengthen Kashmir's composite culture", Malik asserted.
In a related development, Shabir Shah and some other Hurriyat leaders said that the plan of separate township for Pandits was "akin to declaring war against the majority community of Kashmir".
"We will oppose this dangerous conspiracy tooth and nail", they asserted and called the rehabilitation plan as "replica of the Zionist ploy which Israel has used against the innocent Palestinians as a weapon of war". Their statement added: "It is the beginning of one more well calculated dangerous conspiracy against the Muslim identity of Kashmir." |
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