Srinagar : While terming the recommendations of the Indian parliamentary committee regarding the settlement of Western Pakistan refugees in Jammu & Kashmir and giving them voting rights in the assembly elections of the state as an attack on the special status of Jammu & Kashmir and a conspiracy to change the demographic position of the state, chairman Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani Friday cautioned that if the government tries to accept these recommendations then it will be resisted tooth and nail and a strong movement will be launched against it.
In a statement from New Delhi to KNS he alleged that the new government of India have actively started to work over the hidden agenda of RSS and with the help of the state power, they have kick started a dangerous plan to convert the Muslim majority of Jammu & Kashmir into the minorities. As far as the people of Azad Kashmir are concerned who have crossed the seize fire line to this side, they are legally permanent residents of Jammu & Kashmir and no one is against their permanent settlement here. But the refugees who have come from the West Pakistan are in no way the residents of Jammu & Kashmir but they are legally the permanent residents of India and they will be never and at any cot be allowed to become the permanent residents of Jammu & Kashmir, he said.
The issue of permanently settling of the west Pakistan refugees in the state is linked with the constitution of the state and the recommendations of the Indian parliamentary committee are a direct attack over the constitution of the state and it also puts a big question mark over the intention and the status of the committee, Geelani said.
There are about five lakh west Pakistan refugee and issuing state subjects in their favour and giving voting rights to them will be equal to the uprooting of the constitution of the state and it will create serious crisis in the Jammu & Kashmir. Fthe partition till date more than 15 lakh Kashmiris have migrated to the other side of the seize fire line and West Pakistan and the communal people back here have illegally occupied their lands and properties. Till now there return has never been discussed and nether has been their properties vacated from the illegal occupation, the Hurriyat (G) chairman said.
Contrary to that recommendations for the permanent settlement of west Pakistan refugee in the Jammu & Kashmir who have more right to become the permanent residents of India, is part of a plan which has been formulated to change the demography and the disputed nature of the state. The parliamentary committee has made irresponsible recommendations over a most sensitive issue and these recommendations are against the will and aspirations of the people of Kashmir. Jammu & Kashmir is not any Utter Pradesh or Gujarat like state of India but it is internationally accepted a disputed territory in the world and there is no constitutional or moral justification of its military occupation, he said. The ruling party of India should very much understand that the steps out of haste can put the state on the fire and it will further in-stabilize the instable political environment of the state.
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