While out rightly rejecting the plans of New Delhi of permanently settling the retired army personnel or their children in the state, Hurriyat Conference (G) Saturday said that Jammu Kashmir is an internationally accepted disputed territory and the decision for its future is still pending.
“Settling or allotting of land to any army personal or any citizen of India is the clear violation of the international rules which has no constitutional or moral justification. Jammu & Kashmir is not any legal part of Indian like the states of Bihar, UP or the Maharashtra and its status is totally different from them. Issuing the citizenship of this state to any Indian national is totally against the state constitution and the Indian government is not authorized to amend the state constitution,” a spokesman of Hurriyat (G) said in a statement to KNS.
“Hurriyat had called an important meeting of its advisory council (Majlish Shoora) on 22 July on this serious and vital issue in which Hurriyat cautioned the government that we will not allow this plan to succeed and if any land is allotted to any Indian army personal in Jammu & Kashmir, we will launch a movement against that,” he added.
While terming the attitude of the Mufti government on this issue as ‘ambiguous and suspicious’, the spokesman said, “Indian defense minister Manohar Parrikar had said that he had sent directions to the state government in Srinagar on 16 July for taking appropriate action in the allotment of the state land to the former Indian army personals but Mufti Sayeed government is still to say anything about that order and nor has he refuted or supported it.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel”
While addressing Mufti, the spokesman said, “He (Mufti) should clear the stand of the state government on this sensitive issue before the general public that are they going to accept this unconstitutional order of Indian defense minister or will they protect the state constitution. Permanently settling of former Indian army personals is an attempt to harm the special status and disputed nature of Jammu & Kashmir and the people of the state will not allow any such plan to succeed.”
“Besides the entire pro-freedom leadership, Hurriyat has decided to consult law experts and people related to every walk of life and have agreed to mobilize public consensus in this regard. Hurriyat also appealed the world bodies to play their role in stopping India from these kinds of dangerous activities,” he added.