Kashmir Economic Alliance fears Amarnath-like agitation

Stating that “unending conspiracies” are being hatched to allot the land in Jammu and Kashmir to outsiders, the Kashmir Economic Alliance, Chairman Haji Muhammad Yasin Khan cautioned the government that such developments could drag the state towards another Amarnath land like agitation.

In a statement, Khan who also heads the Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers’ Federation said a connected series of events suggest that “some forces within the government were hell bent to create an atmosphere of unrest in Kashmir.”

Stating that the timing of such “conspiracies” seems to be a part of a sinister design, Khan said: “The state government spokesman has been telling lies after lies to keep his RSS masters happy.

He said: “Each and every unusual development taking place in the PDP-BJP alliance since last year suggests that the basic motive of every order issued by this government in this behalf is to systematically erode Article 370 and to allot the land to outsiders.”

“Right from the plan for the construction of township for migrant Pandits to development of Sainik Colony and the Industrial policy envisaging allotment of land to non-locals, there is a conspiracy to convert Kashmir into Gaza (Palestine), so as the Muslims (in Kashmir) will finally have to live in ghettos to be ruled by RSS,” Khan said.

He said as if this all was not enough, the latest has been that the government has “started construction of shelters for non-state subjects in the state.”

“In the garb of shelters for downtrodden from outside the state, the government wants to permanently settle non state subjects and this is something which we will never tolerate and each and every Kashmiri will fight tooth and nail against it,” Khan said.

He said another thing peculiar was that this all was happening close to June which has witnessed several agitations, the first being that of 2008 over “allotment of hundreds of kanals of forestland to Amarnath Shrine board.”

“That time it was Amarnath land alone whereas now multiple attempts are being made to grab our land,” Khan said, adding that this all was enough to convey that the state in general and Kashmir in particular was “being dragged towards uncertainty where chaos will rule the streets.”

“If the state government is serious towards creation of peaceful atmosphere, it must instantly revoke all such sinister orders and make its position clear before the people,” Khan said.

He equally asked Prime Minister NarendraModi to understand that such plans, which look to be brainchild of RSS headquarters at Nagpur, being implemented through PDP, would only create chaos and unrest, which is against the interests of the subcontinent.

“At a time when the subcontinent, particularly this conflict zone, struggles for peace and prosperity, the designs to deprive Kashmiris of their land will only fester crisis,” Khan said adding that Prime Minister NarendraModi and Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti must look at the pros and cons of “such deals in the broader perspective where peace is being taken hostage.”

Given the growing controversy over the issue of land allotment to outsiders, Khan said it was the “duty of the separatist leadership to avoid any chaotic situation where unrest is feared to fuel the state.”

“The separatist mush act through a peaceful unified strategy in one voice, which prevents the situation from going out of hands, where things end up in loss of precious human lives,” he said.

“The corporate Kashmir is for peace, prosperity and communal brotherhood in all the three regions of the state. We don’t want anything which spoils the atmosphere and drags the state towards another Amarnath like agitation,” Khan said.