Tweet missiles from London get Kashmir IIT and IIM, MLA Langate, Er Rashid, said in reaction to former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s reaction to approval of IIM for Jammu on Thursday.
Awami Itihaad Party (AIP) chief, Rashid asked Omar Abdullah to stop “wounding” Kashmiris.
In a statement issued this afternoon, Rashid said, “Omar needs not to forget that dominance of Jammu region started from the day when his late grandfather converted Muslim Conference in to National Conference, just to please then Congress leadership and it was the start of an endless era of miseries for Kashmiris.”
“It sounds good when Omar Sahab shoots tweets from beautiful streets of London and cries regional discrimination but he needs know that battle for rights for Kashmiris needs to be fought on the streets of Srinagar. May one humbly ask Omar Sahab where was his conscience when my party had a three-day sit-in outside secretariat last year but none of the major political parties including NC uttered even a single word and down played the issue. The recordings and proceedings of assembly prove that NC didn’t ever support AIP’s demand on floor of the house seeking IIT and IIM for Kashmir. The party always speaks with one tune in Kashmir, second tune in Jammu and third one in Delhi. The latest example of playing regional and communal card by NC surfaced on 15th August when party boycotted all Independence Day functions in Kashmir as if it was expressing solidarity with people of Kashmir, but it’s provincial President Devender Raina and other top leaders were sitting in front rows in independence day functions in Jammu province, trying to prove that they were more Indians than everybody else,” Rashid said.
He asked Omar Abdullah that if he instead shooting “tweet atomic missiles” from foreign countries will start a sincere campaign for IIT and IIM, AIP will provide him full support and follow him at least over this issue.
Further, the MLA Langate asked officers of J&K Police to “learn a lesson from the incident that led to suspension of a senior Police officer for just receiving a suspicious phone call.”
“Despite none of his fault he was humiliated and orders for his suspension were issued at the directions of Home Ministry from New Delhi. It yet again proved that New Delhi uses Kashmiri politicians and bureaucrats like tissue papers and the JKP force, which often try to prove more Indian than the Indians and commit atrocities on their own people, are not the exception,” Rashid added.
