Srinagar:The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik has said that the protest programs against tinkering with the Article 35A will continue as the leadership “deliberates upon it”.
JRL in a statement issued to GNS said that “deferment of the case by a few weeks is an indication about the intentions of the court which entertained these mischievous petitions backed by the RSS, as part of RSS’s well-known agenda on J&K”.
The leadership said that a strict vigil will be maintained on the situation as they will continue to devise and follow a collective strategy in consultation with all segments of society including traders, lawyers, civil society members, transporters and others.
JRL lauded the entire people of J&K from all regions and religions for their unity and “exemplary courage” in defending this law “which is fundamental to our existence as a nation”.
“This law is directly linked to the disputed status of the entire state of J&K as people of the state are yet to exercise their right to self- determination guaranteed by the UN to decide their permanent dispensation as a nation. The mischievous move to remove this provision is clearly aimed at undoing that possibility by changing the demographic nature of the state and settling non-residents here and hence undermining the conflict and its resolution,” they said.
JRL said people of J&K in unison have sent a clear message to New Delhi that they will never allow these designs against them to succeed.
Commenting over the “grave situation at hand where the very existence of the people of state is at under threat”, the leadership said that for the past 70 years especially the last three decades, people of J&K are acutely suffering the “disastrous consequences of the conditional accession to India thrust upon them by the then pro-India Kashmiri leadership and strengthened by successive pro India parties”.
“One by one these conditions are being flaunted and flayed by successive governments in India, while these pro-India parties become willing collaborators and partners in crime in all this for the sake of power till things have come to such a pass that now our very survival as a people is under serious threat and we all have to come on roads and be ready to spill blood to save it,” the leaders said.
“People and we want to know that is this the vision that the leaders of these pro-India parties had for the people of J&K that we are witnessing in Kashmir today? Is it for this that these parties compromised all along and the people of Kashmir paid dearly all along and continue to pay? Their lust for power coupled with their inabilities has today brought us face to face with such a crisis in the making, where each citizen of the state is now forced to come out on streets and defend it with his life,” JRL said.
“As in the past seventy years of onslaughts against us, the resilient and bold people of Kashmir will leave no stone unturned to resist this one more onslaught against them. The leadership and people of J&K are ready to die for safeguarding our identity and the disputed political status of our land and are all geared up to lead a political mass agitation against it. The sacrifices offered by our people especially the youth are too immense to ignore,” the leadership said. (GNS)
