Srinagar, June 20, 2023 (PPI-OT): Amid the Hindutva onslaught on Jammu and Kashmir’s peculiar identity and culture, National Conference President Farooq Abdullah has asked the Kashmiri people to unite against the divisive forces that are trying to disenfranchise them of their identity, land and resources. Talking to the media on the sidelines of a function at in Srinagar, Farooq said, “I see no way of achieving anything in J and K without a lasting unity between different sections of our society. Unity in diversity must be our creed to last for all times and under all circumstances, otherwise there is no end in sight to our common problems in the shape of poverty, unemployment.”

Pointing at the Hindutva onslaught, Farooq emphasized the value of preserving J and K’s diversity and its unity in diversity. “It becomes all the more important to preserve our culture, language and traditions in our families in wake of the attempts aimed at destroying it. I am sure that people will foil all such attempts by keeping the flame of unity and brotherhood alive. We have to stop seeing ourselves as Hindu Muslim, Shia-Suni, and Bareli Deobandi. Unity in diversity must be our creed to last for all time and under all circumstances, otherwise there is no end in sight to our common problems let alone restoration of our abridged constitutional and democratic rights,” he said. Farooq further said that Jammu and Kashmir had survived numerous conspiracies and ploys to dilute its unique culture and history.

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