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‘Disqualify Farooq from Parliament, derecognize NC’

KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 11/19/2017 11:52:34 AM

'Withdrawal of ration facility to West-Pak refugees inhuman'

JAMMU, Nov 18 (JNF): Jammu High Court Bar Association president B S Slathia on Saturday asked government to file sedition charges against National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah for his recent remarks that ‘Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) belongs to Pakistan’. He also demanded disqualification of NC president from the Lok Sabha and de-recognition of his party by the Election Commission.
Abdullah had on November 11 had said that ‘PoK belonged to Pakistan and this won’t change, no matter how many wars India and Pakistan fight against each other.’
Taking a serious exception to Dr Farooq Abdullah’s, what he said, “divisive and unsetting statement that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is Pakistani’s and India does not have the capacity to retrieve it,”, Slathia demanded immediate action against him under Section 124-A (sedition) of the Ranbir Penal Code and related provisions of law, so that a right message goes to everyone that no “anti-national statements will be accepted.”
“It is shocking that Abdullah, who remained chief minister for a number of terms and served the Government of India as a Cabinet minister, had the audacity to challenge the Indian state which Pakistan comprehensively did in 1965, 1971 and 1999, and divided Pakistan into two countries,” he said.
Slathia said what Abdullah said was an act of sedition which could not be condoned under any circumstance. He said, “India is not a banana republic where anyone can challenge the great institution of the Indian state and walk away free.”
The association chief urged the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and the Election Commission to immediately disqualify him from its membership and de-recognise his political party because he has subverted Article 1 of the Indian Constitution and Section 3 of the Jammu and Kashmir state Constitution.
Slathia expressed the hope that the J&K state government would book him on the charge of sedition and ECI and Speaker of the Lok Sabha would disqualify from the membership of the Lok Sabha and derecognize the NC.
The J&K High Court Bar Association, Jammu also took the opportunity to tear into the J&K government which, it said, “took an in-human step to starve to death the helpless refugees from West Pakistan by denying them the ration through its latest order.”
“It is a crime against man and humanity to deny ration to the refugee brothers from West Pakistan who have been leading a miserable life in Jammu since their migration in 1947. We were expecting that the state government would grant them full citizenship and enable them to lead a dignified life as Indian nationals. Sad, that instead of granting citizenship to the refugees the state government even snatched ration from them so that they starve,” said Slathia.
The J&K High Court Bar Association, Jammu chief said that it would take this case to the court of law in case the order, denying ration to the West Pakistan Refugees was not withdrawn.