Sajad Lone’s Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference (JKPC) on June 7 said Jammu and Kashmir was witnessing a continuous denial of democracy and urged all the political parties not to visit J&K as part of Parliament Standing Committees.
“It is with great sorrow that we observe the continuous denial of democracy and Statehood in J&K. It is disheartening that amidst a population of 1.4 billion people in our nation, not a single soul outside the State seems visibly perturbed by the denial of democracy and statehood to J&K,” a JKPC spokesman said after Mr. Lone chaired a meeting of workers.
He said it was for the first time since 1947 that a State has been downgraded to a Union Territory. “This sad state of affairs has relegated J&K, once the crown of India’s mainland politics, to mere tokenism,” the spokesman said.
