Modi regime wants to fraudulently bring 2.5 million voters and install fascist rulers: Mehbooba Mufti
\n ISLAMABAD
\nKashmiris across the political lines have categorically rejected New Delhi\u2019s \u201csinister\u201d design of giving unlawful voting rights to 2.5 million non-Kashmiris in a bid to change electorate composition, impose fascist Hindu rule and marginalise the Muslim majority in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
\nKashmiris in the occupied valley term the Indian move as yet another onslaught on demography following revocation of articles 370 and 35-A of Indian constitution back on August 05, 2019. The fascist regime changed Kashmir\u2019s age-old domicile law and issued unlawful domiciles to hundreds of thousands non-Kashmiris. It also redrew electoral maps and increased assembly seats in the Hindu-majority Jammu by six from 37 to 43 and Muslim-majority Kashmir by just one from 46 to 47. The well calculated measure was aimed at tilting balance of power in favour of a particular party. The Modi regime also introduced or modified hundreds of laws to grab land and deprive native people of their basic rights.
\nThese steps of providing voting rights to non-Kashmiris has been rejected by all Kashmiris irrespective of their political affiliation, ethnocentric inclination and regional bonding and have been termed as \u201ccolonial measures\u201d.<\/p>\n
Former \u2018chief minister\u2019 of IIOJK and head of pro-Indian Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mehbooba Mufti, termed the move as \u201clast nail in the coffin of electoral democracy\u201d in the region.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey want to fraudulently bring 2.5 million voters and install some fascist rulers. They want to make demographic changes,\u201d Mufti said while relating the process with German Nazi\u2019s and Israeli policies.<\/p>\n
The PDP also took out a protest march in Srinagar on Friday against the decision. Party spokesperson Suhail Bukhari told reporters the move was aimed at \u201celectoral demographic change being forced by the BJP\u201d through inclusion of \u201cimported voters\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs the BJP so insecure about support from genuine voters of (Jammu and Kashmir) that it needs to import temporary voters to win seats? None of these things will help the BJP when the people of J&K [IIOJK] are given a chance to exercise their franchise,\u201d tweeted another former puppet Chief Minister of IIOJK, Omar Abdullah.<\/p>\n
It is pertinent to mention that IIOJK is without so-called elected government since 2018 and is being ruled directly by New Delhi through a selected administrator.<\/p>\n
Also read: Pakistan rejects India\u2019s \u2018deliberate attempts\u2019 of pre-poll rigging in IIOJK<\/p>\n
All Parties Hurriyat Conference Vice Chairman, Shabbir Ahmad Shah in his message from Tihar Jail termed the measure as yet another attempt for political disempowerment and marginalisation of the indigenous Muslim majority of the territory.<\/p>\n
Senior IIOJK Congress leader, Prof Saifuddin Soz urged people of Kashmir to come forward for a decisive battle against brazenly undemocratic and unconstitutional step while National Conference Additional General Secretary Sheikh Mustafa Kamal said the decision was a mockery of participatory democracy in the territory.<\/p>\n
A Kashmiri political analyst, who refused to be identified fearing reprisals, told Al Jazeera the decision to bring in more voters has \u201cshaken the Kashmiris and the next move could be to ask them to leave their homes\u201d. \u201cIt will ensure complete disempowerment of the Muslim community. Already through many laws, they have been turned into a political minority,\u201d said the analyst.<\/p>\n
Mohamad Junaid, who teaches anthropology at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in the United States, told Al Jazeera the government\u2019s \u201ceventual goal is forced demographic change, dispossession of Kashmiris and the erasure of Kashmiri as a political identity\u201d.<\/p>\n
Pakistan termed the measure as a clear manifestation of the treacherous Indian design to influence the outcome of \u2018so-called\u2019 elections in the IIOJK. Foreign Office spokesman reiterated Pakistan\u2019s complete rejection of India\u2019s entire litany of steps aimed at turning the Muslim majority in IIOJK into a minority.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Secretary-General\u2019s Deputy Spokesman Farhan Aziz Haq in his press briefing in New York said the matter about permitting temporary residents in the Muslim-majority IIOJK to register as voters would \u201cneed to be studied\u201d. But, he added, \u201cThe basic principle that we followed is that for any disputes, it\u2019s important to make sure that all of the communities feel being fairly treated and fairly represented.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Modi regime wants to fraudulently bring 2.5 million voters and install fascist rulers: Mehbooba Mufti ISLAMABAD Kashmiris across the political lines have categorically rejected New Delhi\u2019s \u201csinister\u201d design of giving unlawful voting rights to 2.5 million non-Kashmiris in a bid to change electorate composition, impose fascist Hindu rule and marginalise the Muslim majority in Indian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-278505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n