By Faisal Shabbir
Srinagar: Addressing the delegate session party patron Farooq Abdullah said that Jammu and Kashmir is a political issue and unless it is not resolved politically no peace would come to the state.
Faroq was speaking on the delegate session of the National Conference which was held after a gap of fifteen years where he was reelected as the party’s president.
“If you want to win the hearts of the people of J&K then you have to uphold your promises made to the people of the state. We will not be bowed down by the military muscle of India as peace will not come to our state through military might but by talks as Jammu &Kashmir problem is a political problem,” Farooq said.
He said that the after the process of demonetization last year it was being claimed that the militancy in the state would be crushed but it has grown and millitancy related incidents have increased in the past one year.
“You talk of talks but talks cannot be held at the barrel of gun,” Farooq said.
Farooq blamed former Governor Jagmohan is behind the exodus of Kashmiri pandits from the valley during the onset of millitancy in the early nineties. “They (pandits) were told that they will be brought back to the valley within six months but twenty seven years have passed and they have not been able to bring them back,” he said.
Farooq said that he didn’t believe in creating separate homelands for the pandits in the valley. “They are part of our society and have to live among us,” he added.
