Never saw this Hindustan before: Farooq Abdullah
This India is for all of us including Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs: Farooq Abdullah
SRINAGAR (Web Desk) – Kashmiri leader and National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday said the government’s decision to bifurcate the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories felt like “your body was being carved.”
As per reports of Indian media, Abdullah asked if the government will “divide our hearts too.” In his first reaction to the development, the former Chief Minister of Ocuupied Kashmir broke down, saying he hopes the country stands by Kashmir.
He said “I have never seen this India before. This India is for all of us including Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.”
“We will not give in. Death is the wish of God. So why worry about it, he said.
He further said what worries me is the conditions ordinary man going through. Locked up, he may not even have medicines in his house, he may not even have food in his house. What is the use of the government saying we have rations for three months, we have sugar for three months, atta for three months, when a man cannot get to it, not have money to buy it. Is that worth it?” he told the Indian media.
“As soon as the gate will open and our people will be out, we will fight, we will go to the court. We are not gun-runners, grenade-throwers, stone-throwers, we believe in peaceful resolutions,” he said.
In an emotional appeal to the country, Abdullah said “We have been with you, through thick and thin. I hope you stand with us through thick and thin, and pray for the return of democracy and secularism in the country.”
Calling Home Minister Amit Shah a “liar”, Abdullah said he was detained last night. “I was detained in my house and I feel sad that Home Minister can lie like this,” he said, describing how security personnel detained him in his house.
When asked if he saw his son and NC leader Omar Abdullah, he said he last saw him before he was arrested Monday evening.
With mobile communication and Internet services suspended and public movement restricted, all of the Kashmir Valley in a state of lockdown from midnight Sunday, a day before Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced the decision to do away with Article 370 in Occupied Kashmir in Rajya Sabha. Last night, former chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah were arrested along with People’s Conference leader Sajad Lone.
