Peoples Conference Chairman and MLA Handwara Sajad Lone on Saturday delivered a highly concerning address, warning that the growing incidents of harassment of Kashmiris in different parts of the country are eroding the very foundations of national integration and must be treated as a matter of national security rather than isolated law-and-order episodes.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
Addressing a press conference, Lone said he was compelled to speak after being approached by numerous families from his constituency who narrated disturbing experiences faced by their relatives outside Jammu and Kashmir. “If in our own country we are subjected to this kind of behaviour, then one has to ask a painful question what is our status in this country?” he said.
The press conference was attended by senior party leaders including Vice President Abdul Gani Vakil, Chief Spokesperson Advocate Bashir Ahmed Dar, Party Spokesman Muneeb Qurashi and Spokesperson Bisma Meer.
Lone underlined that migration for work is not a recent phenomenon. “In districts like mine, at least 25 to 35 percent of the male population has been living and working in other parts of India for the last fifty to sixty years. Many have purchased homes and built stable lives there,” he noted, adding that these people played a silent but decisive role in strengthening India’s internal cohesion.
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