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JAMMU: Enough is enough. The people of Jammu province suffered immense socio-cultural and politico-economic losses at the hands of the New Delhi-backed fundamentally separatist and communal Kashmiri leadership for over 70 years. They left no stone unturned to convert Jammu into Kashmir and establish Nizam-e-Mustafa in the state using all means with the legislators from Jammu overtly and covertly supporting the colonizers in Kashmir and sections of bureaucracy also dancing to the tunes of Kashmiri rulers. They played havoc with the Jammu’s demographic profile after 1996 and established dozens of colonies and townships in and around Jammu city exclusively for a particular community from Kashmir. They looted the state and forest lands in Jammu province misusing their official position. They converted the legislative assembly into a den of anti-India activities and a tool of subversion and exploitation. It was stated here today by Patron Ikkjutt Jammu, Prof Hari Om while addressing a press conference at the party headquarters.
Prof Hari Om said people of Jammu province could not afford any kind of truck with the jihad-gripped and Jihadi-controlled Kashmir and rabidly anti-Jammu Kashmiri leaders of all hues. He added that co-existence of Jammu with Kashmir will only help the enemies of the nation accomplish their break-India sinister agenda and the Ikkjutt Jammu will not allow the enemies to succeed by achieving for the enslaved and ruthlessly exploited Jammu province status of state at whatever cost. The so-called Jammu leadership has failed Jammu and the Ikkjutt Jammu has resolved to regenerate socio-economic and political life of the suffering people of Jammu province, Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs included, he further said. Reflecting on the nature of relations between Jammu province and Kashmir between 1846 and 1947, Prof Hari Om said that the religio-political leadership in Kashmir consistently opposed the Treaty of Amritsar under which Kashmir became part of the Dogra Kingdom in 1846 and demanded ‘freedom’ from what they called ‘oppressive and alien Dogra rule’. In 1924, they submitted 13 representations to the Indian Governor-General Lord Harding asking him to dethrone the Dogra Maharaja and take over J&K, liberate Kashmir from Jammu and reserve all the posts for the Muslims of Kashmir, revealed Prof Hari Om. He further said that in 1931, the Kashmiri Muslim leadership revolted against Maharaja Hari Singh and used violent methods to get Kashmir ‘liberated’ from the Dogra rule. In 1946, the Kashmiri religio-political leaders under the well-known anti-Jammu Sheikh Abdullah launched ‘Quit Kashmir Movement’ to achieve ‘freedom from Jammu’.
Ikkjutt Jammu Patron said that the Kashmiri Abdullahs under the patronage of the Congress government at the Centre and JL Nehru changed their goalpost in 1947 and demanded a semi-independent status for the whole J&K consisting of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh and they continue to pursue the same line even today with Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti even asking PM Narendra Modi on a daily-basis to accommodate the Pakistani stand on J&K and giving their unstinted support to separatists and terrorists. The memory of what the Farooq Abdullah government did in 1999 still lingers in our minds. He said that year the NC Government had adopted autonomy committee report that urged New Delhi to throw away the Treaty of Amritsar “lock, stock and barrel”. The memories of what the Congress-PDP coalition government did in collaboration with the NC, the CPIM, the Peoples Democratic Front in 2007 in Jammu itself are still fresh to be forgotten. That year, they in no time defeated the Bill seeking incorporation of the terms secularism and socialism in the Preamble of the separatist J&K Constitution, said Prof Hari Om. He further said that situation has now climaxed to the point that Abdullahs, Muftis, Bukharis, Lones, Sozs, Mirs, Muzzaffars and who not in Kashmir have been openly abusing and opposing people of Jammu province and holding protest marches against them in Srinagar for the simple reason that the delimitation panel proposed 43 seats for Jammu, including 7 reserved seats for SCs, in the 90-member house, and 9 reserved seats for STs including Gujjars, Bakerwals, Gadis and Sippis. How could the people of Jammu province, Hindus and Muslims included co-exist with the Kashmiri Abdullahs, Muftis and ilk, who hate them from the core of their heart and treat them like the slaves are treated, asked Patron Ikkjutt Jammu
Prof Hari Om urged the Narendra Modi Government to look all these facts in the face and issue an ordinance that separated Jammu from Kashmir and conferred statehood status on Jammu province. He also appealed to the suffering people of Jammu province to join the Ikkjutt Jammu movement to get a political status they as respectable citizens legitimately deserve in the Indian polity. The people of Jammu province just can’t mark the time because to mark the time would be to help the separatists in Kashmir. Others present during the press conference included Harish Kapoor , Vir Vikram Aditya, Avtar Soni, Tilak Raina Kamal Warikoo, Reshev Singh and Varinder Abrol.