Future alliance with likeminded parties could not be ruled out: ANC

Srinagar, (KMW News): The Jammu and Kashmir Awami National Party, sernior Vice President Muzafar Ahmad Shah has said that possibility of future alliance with likeminded parties could not be ruled out.

“Today, an important meeting of ANC provincial working committee was held under the chairmanship of the ANC provincial president Mr. Lateef Khan at the party Headquarters, here. The meeting was also graced by the Senior Vice-President of the Party Jenab Muzaffar Ahmad shah Sahib. While, addressing the gathering Muzaffar Shah told the working committee to work in unison for strengthening the party and realizing the real aims and objectives set forth by the Founder of the party Late Ghulam Muhmmad Shah Sahib. He further threw light on the political activities and happenings at both the national as well as the state level. Keeping the 2014 elections in mind Mr. Shah further stated that a future alliance with political parties with similar ideologies could not be ruled out as such”, the ANC said in a statement issued here.
Shah while rejecting the recent statements and interviews given by veteran congress leader Mr. Makhan lal fotedar regarding the Indira-Abdullah Accord of 1975 stated that Fotedar has wrongly projected the said accord as an attestation of the accession of J&K with the State of India by Late Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah Sahib with Indhira Gandhi. “Whereas, in reality this accord actually called for the Govt. of India to call off the undemocratic laws post the 9th august 1953 accord”.
Turning back the pages of history Shah further stated that after Sher-e- Kashmir’s arrest in 1953 the Kashmir Issue got hype and created ripples in the international arena including the nerve centers of big nationalities like the UK and USA and it was in this backdrop only that the Kashmir Conspiracy case was revoked against him. “Accordingly, Late Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah Sahib was released from the bars and the then PM of India Mrs. Indhira Gandhi whilst elaborating on the accord stated that all the laws implicated for the state of J&K post 1953 would be reviewed and relooked at and accordingly a committee was also formed to look into the said issue after the 1975 accord”.
Shah further stated that a veteran political personality like Fotedar ought to desist and keep at bay from distorting and manipulating the historical events whilst deliberating on them and should accept in the truest of his spirits and highest of his tenors that Sher-e-Kashmir after the accord whilst accepting the leadership of ruling the government never compromised on the issues of Autonomy and self-dependence and never did away with the agenda. He further pressed that Fotedar should never let go off his mind and remember always that even when Late Shiekh Muhammad Abdullah got arrested as the CM of J&k till then also only three agreements and understandings existed between the GOI and state of J&K viz: foreign affairs, currency and defense and all these equations where changed only after the arrest of Sheikh Sahib on 9th August 1953 including the change in the nomenclatures of Prime Minister and President of J&K as CM and Governor of J&K. “So in 1975 as per the prevailing law of J&k only the post of CM and not the PM was available for Sher-e-Kashmir. Whereas, Mrs. Gandhi had commenced the dialogue process for a second accord with sheikh sahib in 1972 on the main pretext that the above stated nomenclatures would be reversed to PM and President again”.