‘Organization doesn’t represent Kashmiri Pandits’
Reacting sharply to what he called self styled Kashmiri Pandit Organization (Panun Kashmir) president Ashwani Kumar Chrangoo’s demand “to abrogate Article 370 and 35-A from Indian constitution”, AIP chief and MLA Langate Er Rasheed Thursday said organizations like Panun Kashmir do not represent the sentiments of Kashmiri Pandit community.
In his statement, Rasheed said: “Chrangoo should apologize for his meaningless, irresponsible and anti-state remarks and he needs to read the history to understand the significance of Article 35-A or Article 370.”
Rasheed said: “The claim that these Articles have strengthened separatism and terrorism in Kashmir don’t even deserve a response but just to set record straight, one must understand that Article 35-A benefits and safeguards interests of people of the state as a whole and not those of any particular community or region. By opposing Article 35-A Chrangoo and sick minded people like him have got exposed and they don’t even have a right to be called as Kashmiris.”
“It is the people with such biased and communal intentions for whom the migration of Kashmiri Pandits has become an industry and they never want any resolution to political issues,” Rasheed said, adding that majority of the Kashmiri Pandits not only want special status of state to be protected but also the resolution to the long pending dispute, “so that people in the entire region live with peace and honor”.
He accused Chrangoo and “many like him” of hatching conspiracies against the interests of state and misleading people of India for their vested interests.
