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Ekam Sanatan Bharat Dal’s president Ankur Sharma said the organisation wholeheartedly welcomed the landmark judgment of the Supreme Court validating the abrogation of the Constitution’s Article 370.
“Unfortunately, the Union government has brought back Article 370/35A through the backdoor once again through subtle policy interventions to appease separatist Islamists,” he said in a statement, adding that “despite the Article 370 abrogation, the actual minorities of Jammu and Kashmir (non-Muslims) are still being denied minority status”.
Sharma also referred to the protests, public awareness programmes and seminars held by the IkkJutt Jammu (Now Ekam Sanatan Bharat Dal) in 2017-18 seeking abrogation of Article 370 when the BJP-PDP coalition government through it “Agenda of Alliance” had fortified the constitutional provision by agreeing that it would not be touched. It was only after the BJP and the PDP parted ways did Parliament abrogate Article 370, he added.
He further alleged that “faulty” delimitation based on the 2011 census again subjugated Jammu province to Kashmir.
“Earlier they did it through Article 370. Now the BJP has done it through the backdoor using a fudged census against Jammu province. However, the Ekam Sanatan Bharat Dal will participate in the elections whenever they are held in J&K,” he said. “Given subsequent policy decisions taken by the Union government after the abrogation, Jammu province, the nationalist constituency, was again consciously put in second-order status, colonised and hostage to Kashmiri Islamist hegemony.”
Sharma said the only solution in the national interest was “one more reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir”. “Kashmir should be divided into two Union Territories, one of them exclusively for the victims of the Hindu genocide of the 1990s. Jammu should be carved out as a separate independent state,” he said.
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