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NEW DELHI — With “deep anger”, the Communist Ghadar Party of India on Tuesday condemned the “Indian state” for what it called as “the unparalleled state repression” unleashed on the Kashmiri people and the “brutal attack” on their national and human rights.
The party alleged that the Centre had carried out a “brutal assault” on the rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir under the cover of presidential order and a resolution passed by Parliament on August 5, 2019.
The Ghadar Party’s central committee issued a statement to the media condemning the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre for stripping Jammu & Kashmir its special status and splitting it into Union territories. It said the manner in which the Indian state has changed the status of Kashmir exposes the “farce” of Indian democracy.
“It shows that what exists behind the façade of democracy is the brutal dictatorship of the capitalist class, headed by the monopoly houses,” the party averred.
“The Indian state made no pretense of even consulting the political parties and organisations of the Kashmiri people before deciding to deprive them of whatever rights they are formally supposed to have under the Constitution. In typical imperialist style, the Indian ruling class took these decisions unilaterally and then simply asserted that it is in the best interest of the Kashmiris and all other Indian people,” it added.
“By scrapping the special status of Jammu & Kashmir, dividing it, and bringing it directly and completely under Central control, the Indian bourgeoisie has asserted its position as the dominant power in South Asia. It has sent out a loud and clear message that it will brook no opposition or interference from any external force to its complete domination over the land and resources of the territories under its control,” the statement read.
Recalling the colonial history, the statement said, “Seventy-two years ago, the British colonialists organised the brutal partition of India to safeguard their imperialist interests in Asia. A dagger was thrust into the heart of India and the nations of Punjab and Bengal were divided on communal lines. The colonialists also engineered the partition of Kashmir through a bloody war between India and Pakistan. Since then, the Anglo-American imperialists have used the Kashmir issue to keep India and Pakistan perpetually at loggerheads.
The party termed the 5th August decision of the NDA Government an act of humiliation of the Kashmiri people and complete negation of their national rights.
The party also hit out at the Hindutva ideology alleging that its “one nation” project reveals its “colonial and imperialist” outlook. “Any nation, nationality or people within India who demand their rights are branded as “anti-national” and part of the “tukde tukde gang”,” it lamented and added, in reality, it is the Indian “big bourgeoisie” which is truly “anti-national”. It is anti-national because it puts its narrow imperialist interests above those of all the peoples who inhabit this ancient land”.
It concluded that the source of the problems facing the Kashmiri people is the rule of the big bourgeoisie, which cares only for its money bags and not for the wellbeing of the people.
