{"id":13888,"date":"2018-12-28T09:13:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T03:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=13888"},"modified":"2018-12-28T09:13:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T03:43:45","slug":"in-a-referendum-kashmiri-muslims-will-vote-for-india-pdp-patron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=13888","title":{"rendered":"In a referendum, Kashmiri Muslims will vote for India: PDP Patron"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Sajad not a threat, two-MLA party not a threat\u2019<\/strong><\/i><\/h3>\n

New Delhi:<\/strong><\/i> Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Patron Muzaffar Hussain Baig here Thursday said Kashmiri Muslims would vote for India if the United Nations-mandated plebiscite was conducted in Jammu Kashmir.<\/i>
\n\u201cI believe Muslims of Kashmir will stay with India as there is no option of remaining independent,\u201d Baig said referring to the possibility of the United Nations referendum on Kashmir at a one-day conference \u2018Kashmir: The Way Forward\u2019 organised by a Delhi-based think-tank the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi.<\/i>
\nBaig was speaking during the session \u2018Recalibrating the Politics\u2019 in conversation with senior journalist Barkha Dutt.<\/i>
\n\u201cThere has been a radical transformation in the nature of dissent since 1947,\u201d Baig said. \u201cThe choice in front of the people in J&K is not between India and Pakistan but between paradise and hell.\u201d<\/i>
\nHe warned New Delhi that the present \u201canti-India movement\u201d in the Valley could turn into a \u201cpro-Islamic movement\u201d.<\/i>
\nWhen Barkha asked Baig that it was easy to use Islamic tag for disowning the situation in Kashmir, he replied that even the Hurryiat Conference was not comfortable with Islamisation of the region.<\/i>
\n\u201cToday in Kashmir, mothers take pride in the death of their sons as militants,\u201d he said.<\/i>
\nThe former deputy chief minister of J&K said Kashmiri people were secular whose voice was not being heard.<\/i>
\n\u201cBut those who kill make the headlines and the aspirations of the common Kashmiris remains unheard in this process,\u201d he said.<\/i>
\n\u201cYouth control the streets, and indirectly ISI controls the streets,\u201d the PDP leader said recalling that it was during the 2010 uprising that people responded with stones against the armed forces.<\/i>
\nTracing the using of stones in Kashmir, he said Kashmiris first used stones against the Mughals.<\/i>
\nOn the perception among Kashmiris that all mainstream political parties were the creation of \u201cIndian agencies\u201d, Baig said, \u201cThe Indian state and Indian leadership never fulfilled their promises on Kashmir, and rather changed the promises from time to time.\u201d<\/i>
\nHe said the \u201ccommunalization in India\u201d was resulting in \u201cradicalization in Kashmir\u201d.<\/i>
\n\u201cThe aim of PDP\u2019s alliance with BJP in J&K was to make the minorities in India also the part of decision-making process but the alliance proved to be an utter failure,\u201d Baig said.<\/i>
\nThe senior PDP said Peoples Conference (PC) Chairman Sajad Lone was not a threat to any major political party in Jammu Kashmir.<\/i>
\n\u201cHow can a party of two MLAs become a threat to the party which has presence throughout the State,\u201d said Baig.<\/i>
\nBaig, who earlier expressed support for an emerging Third Front in the State, said he no longer supports the Third Front led by Sajad as the PDP President Mehbooba Mufti assured him that they would take the march of democracy ahead and also take other agendas forward.<\/i>
\nThe PDP senior leader said it was he who drafted the constitution of both PC and PDP yet remained deputy in both the parties.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Sajad not a threat, two-MLA party not a threat\u2019 New Delhi: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Patron Muzaffar Hussain Baig here Thursday said Kashmiri Muslims would vote for India if the United Nations-mandated plebiscite was conducted in Jammu Kashmir. \u201cI believe Muslims of Kashmir will stay with India as there is no option of remaining independent,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}