The Peoples Democratic Party has said that the Bharatiya Janata Party divided the land and resources of occupied Jammu and Kashmir for the benefit of its cronies and used brute majority in Parliament to pass laws that disempower the territory’s people.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the PDP statement came in the backdrop of Indian Supreme Court’s verdict against the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
“Other than dividing up our land and resources for their cronies and using their brute majority in the Parliament to airdrop laws to disempower our people, what has BJP done for us?” the PDP asked in its monthly newsletter SPEAK UP.
The PDP said Kashmir is grieving after the verdict of the Supreme Court on abrogation of Article 370.
Reacting to Indian Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement in the Parliament on “blunders” of Jawaharlal Nehru’s handling of Kashmir, the party said, “On a bright sunny day in New Delhi, Amit Shah found himself mourning the loss of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir [Azad Kashmir]. Instead of ruminating over Jawaharlal Nehru’s ‘blunders’, the BJP needs to ask themselves what they have done for Indian [occupied] Kashmir since they came to power in 2014”.
“Expecting a solution from those who created the web is like a bug asking the spider for its freedom, not realizing the purpose of the web,” it added.
The PDP also alleged that the extraction of lithium in Jammu and Kashmir will result in damage to ecology of the regions without any economic benefits for the locals.—KMS
