By PTI
SRINAGAR: People’s Conference chairman Sajad Lone on Saturday mentioned separatist chief Yasin Malik, convicted in a terror funding case, deserves a good trial and demanded a probe into the alleged rigging within the 1987 meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
He mentioned the 1987 rigging resulted within the eruption of militancy within the Kashmir Valley and requested National Conference president and former chief minister Farooq Abdullah why Malik was ‘tortured’.
“We do not agree to his (Malik’s) ideology, but he is a citizen of J-K and has a right to a fair trial. His point of view be at least heard,” Lone instructed reporters.
He mentioned Malik was a kind of who had raised their voice towards the alleged rigging within the 1987 meeting elections.
“Was Yasin Malik born with a gun in hand or did the situation compel him to do so? Most of those youth are either dead or are in jail. Why is the Central government not lifting the veil from 1987? Why are they covering it up?” Lone requested.
He mentioned the compulsions of the Congress social gathering to not inquire the alleged rigging will be understood as a result of the social gathering was part of it, however what’s stopping the BJP, which was not in energy then, from investigating the matter.
“You (BJP) say you want to change everything and that everything which has happened was wrong,” Lone mentioned, including when the saffron social gathering was getting even decades-old minor incidents investigated by the NIA, then why not the 1987 rigging.
He mentioned the 1987 rigging was the set off level for the eruption of militancy in Kashmir.
“The reality is that if 1987 is taken out of history, then perhaps, nothing would have happened. Whatever is happening, followed that only,” he mentioned.
Malik, 56, head of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), started a starvation strike in Tihar Jail after the federal government didn’t reply to his plea that he be allowed to bodily seem in a Jammu court docket listening to the Rubaiya Sayeed kidnapping case through which he’s an accused, officers mentioned on Saturday.
He was arrested in early 2019 in reference to a 2017 terror-funding case registered by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Malik had pleaded responsible within the case and was sentenced to life imprisonment by a particular NIA court docket in Delhi in May.
Asked concerning the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) — which his social gathering give up after being part of it for a while — Lone mentioned the amalgam was “dead”.
“It is not PAGD, but NC-PDP alliance. It is an alliance of two parties only to stop any other party from coming to power. The PAGD was there, but now it is not. It is dead,” he mentioned.
READ HERE | Former J&Okay CM’s daughter Rubaiya Sayeed identifies Yasin Malik, three others as her abductors
Asked about NC vp Omar Abdullah’s tweet about opposition unity within the nation, Lone mentioned “It seems it was done to please the BJP and (keep) distance from the Congress.”
Omar Abdullah had tweeted, “Opposition unity is a bit of a chimera. Ultimately political parties will do what’s in their own interest & that’s as it should be. J&K saw this when we were left high & dry by ‘friends’ in 2019. It’s time for @JKNC_ to do suits the party rather than waste time chasing ghosts.”
Taking a dig at PDP president Mehbooba Mufti over her remarks that her sister Rubaiya Sayeed carried out her authorized duties by figuring out Malik as her abductor, Lone mentioned Mufti ought to cease speaking about reconciliation.
“When 1990 came, two new words came ‘militant’ and ‘mukhbir’ (informer). So, they have played the role of an informer. It is their right to be an informer and no one will stop them, but, they should say it. They talk about reconciliation, talks with militants, (Hizbul Mujahideen chief) (Syed) Salahudin, and Pakistan. When you are an informer, then do not talk about these things because an informer cannot talk about reconciliation,” he mentioned.
SRINAGAR: People’s Conference chairman Sajad Lone on Saturday mentioned separatist chief Yasin Malik, convicted in a terror funding case, deserves a good trial and demanded a probe into the alleged rigging within the 1987 meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
He mentioned the 1987 rigging resulted within the eruption of militancy within the Kashmir Valley and requested National Conference president and former chief minister Farooq Abdullah why Malik was ‘tortured’.
“We do not agree to his (Malik’s) ideology, but he is a citizen of J-K and has a right to a fair trial. His point of view be at least heard,” Lone instructed reporters.
He mentioned Malik was a kind of who had raised their voice towards the alleged rigging within the 1987 meeting elections.
“Was Yasin Malik born with a gun in hand or did the situation compel him to do so? Most of those youth are either dead or are in jail. Why is the Central government not lifting the veil from 1987? Why are they covering it up?” Lone requested.
He mentioned the compulsions of the Congress social gathering to not inquire the alleged rigging will be understood as a result of the social gathering was part of it, however what’s stopping the BJP, which was not in energy then, from investigating the matter.
“You (BJP) say you want to change everything and that everything which has happened was wrong,” Lone mentioned, including when the saffron social gathering was getting even decades-old minor incidents investigated by the NIA, then why not the 1987 rigging.
He mentioned the 1987 rigging was the set off level for the eruption of militancy in Kashmir.
“The reality is that if 1987 is taken out of history, then perhaps, nothing would have happened. Whatever is happening, followed that only,” he mentioned.
Malik, 56, head of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), started a starvation strike in Tihar Jail after the federal government didn’t reply to his plea that he be allowed to bodily seem in a Jammu court docket listening to the Rubaiya Sayeed kidnapping case through which he’s an accused, officers mentioned on Saturday.
He was arrested in early 2019 in reference to a 2017 terror-funding case registered by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Malik had pleaded responsible within the case and was sentenced to life imprisonment by a particular NIA court docket in Delhi in May.
Asked concerning the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) — which his social gathering give up after being part of it for a while — Lone mentioned the amalgam was “dead”.
“It is not PAGD, but NC-PDP alliance. It is an alliance of two parties only to stop any other party from coming to power. The PAGD was there, but now it is not. It is dead,” he mentioned.
READ HERE | Former J&Okay CM’s daughter Rubaiya Sayeed identifies Yasin Malik, three others as her abductors
Asked about NC vp Omar Abdullah’s tweet about opposition unity within the nation, Lone mentioned “It seems it was done to please the BJP and (keep) distance from the Congress.”
Omar Abdullah had tweeted, “Opposition unity is a bit of a chimera. Ultimately political parties will do what’s in their own interest & that’s as it should be. J&K saw this when we were left high & dry by ‘friends’ in 2019. It’s time for @JKNC_ to do suits the party rather than waste time chasing ghosts.”
Taking a dig at PDP president Mehbooba Mufti over her remarks that her sister Rubaiya Sayeed carried out her authorized duties by figuring out Malik as her abductor, Lone mentioned Mufti ought to cease speaking about reconciliation.
“When 1990 came, two new words came ‘militant’ and ‘mukhbir’ (informer). So, they have played the role of an informer. It is their right to be an informer and no one will stop them, but, they should say it. They talk about reconciliation, talks with militants, (Hizbul Mujahideen chief) (Syed) Salahudin, and Pakistan. When you are an informer, then do not talk about these things because an informer cannot talk about reconciliation,” he mentioned.
