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The former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah, has said that the people of Kashmir now want to be under China instead of India.
In an interview with the Indian outlet The Wire, he said: “I consider myself an Indian and I am skeptical about finding such a person in Kashmir.” Because they no longer trust the Indian government.
Farooq Abdullah, head of the National Conference Party and known to be the most ‘pro-India’ in Jammu and Kashmir for four decades, said that the Indian government was treating Kashmiris as slaves, as second-class citizens.
“China is moving towards our border today,” he said. There are people in Kashmir who want the Chinese to come.
Asked again by journalist Karan Thapar, he said aloud: “Kashmiris know what China has done to Muslims in their country. I honestly say so. They do not want a government that does not listen to them. They want China more than India.
“We were for Gandhi’s India, not Modi’s India,” he said in the 44-minute interview. Our religion, as a Muslim majority, we have to go with Pakistan. But we believed in Gandhi’s India. We believed that people of all religions would have the same rights in this country. We are all part of this nation. Now that feeling, that faith is broken. ‘
In August 2019, the ruling BJP government repealed Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which gave Kashmir the status of a special autonomous region.
About 72 hours before the constitutional status change in Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Farooq Abdullah. When asked about the situation in Kashmir, Modi said: “I wanted to know if there was a war with China or Pakistan.” I want to know about the deployment of so many troops in Kashmir. So that we can also prepare. The prime minister said the troop surge was due to security reasons.
He said Modi did not say a word about sections 370 and 35A. I left the meeting with the conviction that paragraph two was not going to change.
When asked, he agreed that Prime Minister Modi had tricked and misled him.
Farooq Abdullah said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claim that the people of Kashmir had embraced the August 2019 change simply because there were no protests was completely false.
“In every street, in every village, Indian troops are armed,” he said. Where is our freedom?
‘How can you protest when the police are standing in the street with weapons? Can you protest? If this were the case in Delhi, with the police in the streets with guns, could you protest in front of your house? The moment the army withdraws, millions of people in Kashmir will take to the streets. I guarantee it. ‘
He said that when the constitutional changes were announced on August 5, 2019, the people of Kashmir lost confidence in Congress and all other major political parties.
He said about himself, he has lost both sides. The center arrested him as a traitor. The people of Kashmir consider him a slave to India. They abused him, made fun of him.
Abdullah said: “Congress and other parties have come together on the issue of the Gupkar Declaration of August 2019. It was said again in August this year. He called for the restoration of the dignity of Kashmiris. This means restoration Articles 370 and 35A, the restoration of statehood.
He said he would fight for him to the death.
When asked if he had confidence in the Supreme Court, he said he hoped the verdict would be in favor of the suspension order that his party had requested.
He said that the Mufti and the Abdullah family were united in suppressing their past differences in the best interests of Kashmir.
“Why didn’t they release Mehbooba Mufti?” He asked angrily. Is he a criminal? This is not India, this is not Indian democracy.
He told The Wire that new domicile laws have been enacted to increase the Hindu majority in the valley. This has further poisoned the minds of the Kashmiri people. The Kashmiris have now started to hate the Indians. The people of Kashmir have no freedom. They do not know what is happening, what is the future of their children.
“Look at the current situation, China is moving forward,” he said of recent border tensions. Modi says that no territory has been occupied. In the same parliament, the Defense Ministry says that weapons, troops and even missiles are being deployed in many areas. Indian troops cannot enter.
“We have to go to Russia for a compromise. Trump wants us to compromise. Do we stand firm as a nation?
When asked about the Kashmiri reaction to the CAA, religious discrimination and violence in Delhi, Abdullah said: “They have lost hope. Now they are thinking about Jinnah. He wonders if it was wrong to join India. The government The Indian has lost the people of Kashmir, they have occupied that land only by force of power.
‘We are not fighting for any power. We fight to regain the respect, rights, pride and faith that we deserve. I fight to restore faith in Muslims.
