By Agence India Press
Srinagar: In order to resolve Kashmir issue, a countrywide consensus needs to be built in a dignified and democratic manner by taking into account the sentiments of the people on board, said Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, patron of the Peoples Democratic Party
Discounting Advani’s accusations about PDP providing manpower to the street
protests, he said, “It was a cruel irony that the successor of Atal Behari Vajpayee and
shadow prime minister of largest democracy in the world should have tried to
reduce a political, moral and humanitarian challenge into a stone pelting
discourse.”
Mufti reminded Advani that the challenge before the country is to address the sentiments of the Kashmiri people in a humane, respectful and innovative manner which the Indian democratic system is fully capable of coming up with.
He said, as an inheritor of Vajpayee’s legacy, Advani should have led the humanitarian agenda of the former prime minister to build a consensus for the resolution of Kashmir. The political class of the country has to respond to the crisis in Kashmir that has been the creation of an exclusive dependence on bureaucratic-security mechanism, Mr. Sayeed added.
He also appealed to all the major political parties, irrespective of partisan considerations, to show solidarity with the most distressed region that has to be part of country’s conscience and not just a spot on its political boundaries and a festering humanitarian sore.