Srinagar: Secretary General Jammu and Kashmir Young Men’s League Shakeel ur Rahman and Vice chairman Zahid Ashraf have denounced the Indian Supreme Court’s decision on Article 370. In a statement issued here today, secretary general Shakeel ur Rahman and vice chairman YML Zahid Ashraf while terming the Indian Supreme Court’s decision on 370 a manifestation of perverse and crude justice dictated by the saffron mind-set of the ruling regime said that such spurious decision was expected as Indian judiciary had been turned into a Hindutva instrument by the ruling BJP and the Sangh Parivar and therefore, did exactly what it was scripted to do by communal saffron peerage.
Shakeel ur Rahman and vice chairman YML Zahid Ashraf in a joint statement said that the apex court by condescending to the whims and dictates of the Sangh Parivaar not only blackened its own face and the judicial ethos it previously prided itself in but also exposed the real face and worth of the Indian democracy and the much trumpeted secular fabric of its constitution.
Both leaders said that it was living in a fool’s paradise if India thought that by scrapping the special status of the occupied state and getting it validated from its Supreme Court, it would convert this international issue into an internal concern. India must remember that Kashmir was an international issue and a longest unresolved agenda item on the UNSC and that there were two more parties to it, the Kashmiri natives and Pakistan.
They reiterated that Kashmir was an issue of the right to self-determination of 14 million Kashmiri state subjects who were yet to exercise their birthright to decide about their future of their own volition. He warned that the Indian intransigence on Kashmir was vitiating the atmosphere in the region and if the bellicosity and jingoism of the BJP leadership continued unchecked, there was a potential danger of the region sliding into a conflagration for all routes to peace and stability in the subcontinent crossed through Kashmir and therefore, the world community needed to intervene and force India to shun its mulish psyche and seek a negotiated settlement of the issue on the basis of a plebiscite in accordance with the relevant UNSC resolutions.