SRINAGAR: Kashmiris have found an unlikely ally in Kavitha, a woman member of Indian parliament, who has said Kashmir or Telangana were never parts of India.
Kavitha is the daughter of Kalva Kuntla Chandrashekar Rao or KCR, the first Chief Minister of India’s new state carved out of Andhra Pradesh. She is also a sitting MP from Nizamabad.
In an interview given to a newspaper, Kavitha made the comments that Telangana and Kashmir were not part of India before 1947.
Both Telangana and Kashmir were not part of India before 1947. They were separate nations. But we were forcibly annexed to the Indian Union after 1947. Our troubles have started since then, said Kavitha.
Parts of Kashmir do not belong to India. We should accept reality and come clean on Kashmir. The international borders should be redrawn. The budgetary allocation for defense spending on the borders can then be utilized for the development of the economy, said Kavitha.
Interestingly, this seems to be the stand of the whole TRS Party. During the peak of the T-agitation, TRS MP Vinod kumar made a similar statement.
We are not Indians. We were forcibly annexed to India, said Vinod Kumar during a debate in a TV Channel.
The statement, which was made in the lower house of the Indian parliament, has categorically stated that Jammu Kashmir and Telangana are not parts of India and New Delhi had forcibly occupied these territories.
Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said the stand of the Congress and even of parliament was that the (erstwhile) princely state of Kashmir in its entirety is an ‘integral, invisible, inalienable’ part of India, according to the ‘Accession Instrument’ of 1947. He asserted that it was important to clarify these things because the foreign leaders, institutions or bodies coming across such statements by an elected representative.
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