By Muslim Mirror News
Srinagar: Awami Itehad Party leader and independent MLA Er Rashid today made it clear to the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh that the only solution to resolve Kashmir dispute and bring peace is to hold plebiscite on both sides of LoC as agreed by both India and Pakistan in UN. Rashid, who led a five member party delegation, met visiting Home Minister here and said seeking right to self determination doesn’t violate constitution of India and nor it amounts to separatism.
He said that the Center needs to understand that passing the buck and avoiding the resolution is the only reason why Jammu & Kashmir is bleeding since 1947.
The delegation told d Rajnath Singh that those who talk to New Delhi with an apologetic and appeasement stand are neither helping India nor Kashmiris but just want to rule the state by keeping Indian state in complete dark. They rejected the allegations that Jammu region was facing discrimination and said that from civil secretariat to police department and from judiciary to ordinary govt services, the number of Muslims has been shrunk to dismal level and added that people of state do never want any solution on communal lines nor has majority community ever been communal.
Buttressing this argument, Er Rashid said that despite being 70% Muslim dominated State, Muslims get killed in the state J&K and it is perhaps the only place in the world where people from the majority
The delegation also made it clear that all those formulas seeking restoration of autonomy or something else has no takers in J&K and those who claim that Jammu province doesn’t subscribe to what is happening in Kashmir are just misleading themselves as if just a particular community in two and half districts doesn’t speak about plebiscite, it doesn’t mean that people of whole region agree to their view point.
Describing the uprising as mass movement, Er Rashid said that Pakistan India and people of Jammu and Kashmir are Party to Kashmir dispute and no two parties can resolve it bilaterally, as United Nations has clearly given the roadmap which has been agreed by both the parties. t implementing UN resolutions will not only resolve the Kashmir dispute but will add to India’s stature in the world community. The delegation gave a memorandum to the Home Minister reiterating its demand that resolution to Kashmir dispute leads only through right to self determination in a stipulated time period.