The Convener of APHC-AJK chapter, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, has said that India’s marginalised communities – Muslims, Dalits, Sikhs, Christians and the tribal nations and civilizations genuinely feel and believe that there is no question of rejoicing on India’s Republic Day because India has ceased to be a secular democracy and its Constitution is only in name.
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani in a statement is-sued in Islamabad said, a complete farce is played with the minorities of India in the name of constitu-tion. He said, Indian Muslims who are over 25 crore citizens of India are treated as sub humans; in prac-tice they have been stripped of their religious, so-cial, economic and political rights and there are no civil liberties for non Hindu communities of the country.
“The Muslims are subjected to all types of dep-rivations and lynching on streets has become a usual practice against them under the present Hindutva Modi regime. Thus India as a secular democracy has ceased to exist and has no future as a country and an uncivilized and brutal culture of dark ages is being promoted across this multi-ethnic state through unconstitutional and coercive methods,” he said.
The APHC-AJK Convener said, the people of Kashmir have totally rejected the Indian Republic Day and have declared 26th January as a Black Day all across Jammu and Kashmir to demand the right to self-determination and freedom. He said Kashmir was never a part of India but it had always its sepa-rate history, geography and culture. He asked New Delhi to testify its claim of Kashmir by holding a free, fair and impartial plebiscite under the UN aus-pices in Jammu and Kashmir.
Farooq Rehmani said that the Indian Republic Day was meaningless and baseless in Kashmir and nobody treated India like a lawful regime, respect-able state or a secular democracy in Jammu and Kashmir. —INP
