Jammu, April 24, 2022 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit, a Jammu-based morcha of pro-India political parties and social organisations, including the Congress and the National Conference, advocated the immediate restoration of statehood and democracy.
The All Parties United Morcha (APUM), which also includes the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), United Peace Alliance and the Internationalist Democratic Party, sought the Indian Prime Minister’s intervention in addressing the shortcomings in the draft proposal prepared by the delimitation commission for IIOJK.
Addressing a joint press conference in Jammu, leaders of the morcha, including Congress chief spokesperson and former legislator Ravinder Sharma, former MP Sheikh Abdul Rehman and former minister Ram Paul of the National Conference, said, “Jammu and Kashmir is passing through a crucial phase as our historic state was brutally dismembered and downgraded. We are also deprived of a democratically elected government since June 2018.”
He said the morcha held a discussion last week and has decided to come together and remind the Indian prime minister, who is coming to Jammu and Kashmir, today, of his promise to the people about the restoration of statehood. He said all the parties are united in their demand for early restoration of statehood and democracy in Jammu and Kashmir.
Rejecting the draft report of the delimitation commission for Kashmir, the Congress leader said, “It is a big fraud with the people as there are numerous shortcomings, and the report is not in sync with ground realities and is bound to cause huge inconvenience to the public.”
National Panthers Party leader and former minister Harsh Dev Singh drew the attention of the Indian prime minister towards the ever-growing unemployment in the territory and appealed to him to address the concerns of the educated unemployed and the underemployed in the territory on priority.
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