Srinagar: Reacting to the statement made by National Conference leader Ali Muhammad Sagar castigating anti-Kashmir elements for raking up Refugee rights issue, President Doctors Association Kashmir Dr Nisar-ul-Hasan Monday said National Conference acted as mute spectator when its Coalition partner Congress raked up the same issue in January 2013.
Hasan told CNS that it were two senior Congress leaders and ministers in the Omar-Abdullah-led coalition government, Sham Lal Sharma and Raman Bhalla, who in 2013 while addressing a public meeting near Vijaypur Jammu had announced that the state government will bring an amendment in the constitution to grant PRCs to the West Pakistan refugees.
These Congress politicians who accuse BJP of communal agenda had stated that the matter was under the active consideration of the state government. These leaders then even claimed that State Congress president Professor Saif-u-Din Soz had a detailed discussion on the issue with Central government and the Congress party is pitching for granting citizenship rights to the refugees of West Pakistan, he said.
He alleged that National Conference that time played vote bank politics and acted as mute spectator. He said that National Conference leader Ali Muhammad Sagar instead of taking on the leaders of his Coalition partner that time said that Chief Minister had already expressed his concern about the problems being faced by the West Pakistan refuges ever since they had been displaced. Quoting Sagar, president DAK said that Sagar that time stated that in this regard CM has already requested the Government of India to settle the issue.
It is irony that for petty vote bank politics politicians change their colours like chameleons. Before issuing statement and trying to prove the sympathizer of people of Kashmir, it is better for NC leader to check his statements that he issued from time to time in past, he said. (CNS)
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