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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 24: Jammu Kashmir National Panthers Party Chairman Prof Bhim Singh presented Hindi Edition of his book, 'Peace Mission, Around the World on Motorcycle' to President of India Pratibha Devi Singh Patil at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi.
Bhim Singh travelled on two-wheeler from India to London, London to East European countries including erstwhile USSR and later from London to Africa on peace mission. During his tour, he received a wide coverage of world media on his forceful mission for total disarmament, reconciliation among nations and non-violence as was conceived by Mahatma Buddha till this day.
Bhim Singh along with Jagdishwar Samyal left India on two-wheeler in 1967 and arrived in London after 11 months. He told the President of India that it took nearly five years for him to ensure Hindi and Urdu translation of his travelogue. The President of India wanted to know as to how he could find time to write his books. Prof Bhim Singh replied, "I am the slave of the day but master of the night and he has devoted his lonely hours for the works which he intends to leave for the coming generations". President Patil expressed happiness that this book on peace travels by an Indian is being translated into Arabic, French and Spanish also.
Expressing deep sympathy and solidarity with the victims of violence, the PDP leaders said that the government had tried to redirect the guilt of its atrocities to victims by calling the protestors as paid agents or labeling these deaths as suicides. Instead of acknowledging the sentiment, accepting its mistakes and trying to rectify them, the ruling coalition kept parroting just one sentence: no threat to government, no change in leadership. Describing this attitude as totally inept, the speakers pointed out that the failure to govern had spawned such insecurity among the ruling clique that instead of trying to provide relief to the victims of its disastrous performance it busied itself in raising political bunkers for its survival even while filling jails with teenaged youth and the aged leaders. An entire population has been imprisoned and left unattended which has led to an unprecedented collapse of administration and a total erosion of faith in the system.
The childish response of the ruling national conference to the current crisis also came in for discussion in the backdrop of mounting problems of the people. According to the spokesman, the party leaders dismissed the issues like corruption and change of leadership raised by the government as a mere gimmick to divert the attention from the ground situation. The fact is that the government has failed in all aspects of governance and rampant corruption is one manifest front, the recent formal probe ordered by the Chief Minister against half of his cabinet further questions the credibility of this government.
Calling for an end to repressive measures in place now, the party stressed sincere efforts to create an atmosphere for resolution of Kashmir problem. The leaders according to spokesman were unanimous in voicing their concern over the lack of appreciation of ground realities in Kashmir but hoped that the current situation and the tragedies caused by it would bring home the realization that the problem would not go away by denying its existence. They called for an end to indiscriminate arrest of youth, use of force and undeclared and declared curfew as a preferred policy of the state so as to try and create an atmosphere conducive to resolution.
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