Moments before his detention, JKLF chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik told reporters that Kashmiri people would fight tooth and nail the move to grant citizenship rights to refuges from erstwhile West Pakistan. These refugees are not the permanent residents of Jammu and Kashmir and we will launch an agitation in case government of India grants citizenship rights and other concessions to these refugees, Malik said and alleged that the BJP was hell-bent to change the demographic character of Jammu and Kashmir.
He said that Jammu Kashmir is a land full of forests and water bodies and such lands are protected throughout the world. He said that State Subject Law is not associated to J&K only but many Indian hilly states including Himachal Pradesh and Mizoram also having similar kind of laws to safeguard their ecology and environment.
In Jammu, some forces want to put State on fire in the name of the religion. They are pressurizing government to grant citizenship to these refugees. If Indian state, its parliament and political parties are concerned about these West Pakistan refugees, why dont they settle them permanently in Punjab, Haryana or Delhi, he asked.
Malik said the Hindu Maharaja acknowledged the significance of fragility of Kashmir and that is why he implemented State Subject Law inspite of the fact that the people of Kashmir were fighting against his rule.
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