During a recent meeting on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir, several speakers called for creating fear among Kashmiris, especially making Kashmiri youth studying or working in other parts of the country unsafe to live so that their families in the Valley can realize.
“Create fear among Kashmiri Muslims,” said Pushpendra Kulshrestha, a political commentator, during an Indoi-Analytics Conclave titled “Views on Article 370/35A and Trifurcation of J&K” on 14 January 2019 in New Delhi.
“Unless the Kashmiri Muslims living in different parts of India won’t be fearful, no one will call you back to Jammu and Kashmir. [Also] unless the parents of these people do not realize that their sons are not safe outside, one who is working in multinational companies or studying outside, you are making them feel safe and see what they are doing.”
Stressing upon the ‘provided safety measures’ to Kashmiri students, he added that the government has appointed nodal officers in every state to ensure that a Kashmiri employee is working there, “their complaints are to be addressed within no time, and all of this is done as a response to what they did to 3.5 lakh Kashmiri Pandits.”
“Thoughts do not change even after getting high posts; when they (Muslims) speak, there is no difference between what (Zakir) Musa, (Abu) Dhujana, Aamir Khan, or be it Naseer-ud-din Shah, and Hamid Ansari says,” said Mr. Kulshestra.
Adding in the clutter of communally inciting words of Mr. Kulsheshtra, Sushil Pandit, owner of HIVE communication Pvt. Ltd., and a Kashmiri Pandit activist, quoted the first speech of former Chief Minister of the state, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, in the state assembly.
“Kashmir is an independent Republic within the Republic of India,” and added that it (Kashmir republic) was not something that Mr. Abdullah wanted for Kashmir, but was given by India to him.
Notably, in May last year, he was booked by the Jammu and Kashmir police for ‘spreading fake news’ on Twitter during the controversial ‘Ramzan Ceasefire’.
Sharing the stage with the speakers, Javed Shah, a political analyst, said that in the 1990s, people rushed towards forces to which they reacted ‘by opening fire at them’. “Being new in the Valley, they (forces) hardly had any idea. People say that Jagmohan was sent to Kashmir to kill but I will say that he was aimed at developing Kashmir after Farooq Abdullah’s government collapsed in the state,” and held the National Conference’s (NC) ‘unwillingness’ responsible for the ‘situations in Kashmir’.