Altaf Hamid Rao Mirpur (Ajk)
Jammu and Kashmir National Front (JKNF) Wednesday gave a call to the Jammu & Kashmir State people to observe a complete strike on January 1st to say a big no to the Modi government’s neo-colonial and anti-Kashmir agenda that seeks to con-trol, by any means, internationally-acknowledged disputed State of Jammu & Kashmir, it’s land and resources.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the JKNF spokesman Shafiqur-ur-Rehaman while citing the Indian government’s policies towards Kashmir said that the apartheid regime led by Narender Modi was hell-bent on erasing the political, cultural, and reli-gious identity of Kashmiris by revoking age-old laws.
Terming delimitation as part of this grand con-spiracy, he said, it was high time that the people in the occupied territory should remain vigilant of such conspiracies and stand united to foil the racist re-gime’s nefarious designs intended to reduce Kash-miris’ political centrality, wiping out their distinc-tive identity and turning them majority community into minority.
The shameful process of reducing Kashmiris to third-class citizens, he said, started soon after the abrogation of article 370 and 35 A and since then it continues unabated. He said that redefinition of J&K’s domicile law, the policies of land grab, the ruthless suppression of dissent coupled with double-edged assault against Kashmiri youth were part of the settler colonialism campaign to change the demographic complexion of the state by converting majority into minority.
