Hurriyat ‘irrelevant’, Kashmiris must move on, find place for themselves within India: Bilal Lone
Alone’s comments made an important separation from the traditional separatist discourse, accepting that both Hurriyat and Pakistan “fell” on the opportunity to make progress to the region.
The next generation is the primary motivation of Lone’s transition to the mainstream politics, because the young generation called for India to see the country with the lenses of political parties, but to see that they see as “India” to find a space for themselves in the country.
The current generation should describe the truth about the last 35 years as “no other option”, but to enter this new political sphere, “exploitation policy should stop”.
Lone, who spoke only with PTI videos, claimed that the Hurriyat conference, a separatist Holding founded in 1993, lost its interest in the valley.
“Hurriyat is not more relevant as in history. Hurriyat functional Bhi Nahi Hai (not even functional),” he added, “Let’s be honest … When you talk about Hurriyat, there is no place in Kashmir anywhere.” While accepting that people have rejected their trust in Hurriyat in the past, Lone said that the current reality was different. “The Hurriyat conference lost the level of relevance because we couldn’t move,” he said, “So the concept of Hurriyat could have been good at that time … But when we visualize Hurriyat today, not functional, and somewhere, Hurriyat, of course, fell on this issue.”
Lone criticized the role of Pakistan equally and said, “We heard many explanations, but nothing came out,” he said, “Pakistan should help Kashmir should help soothe here instead of creating cracks here”.
He rejected the idea that Pakistan would “take” Kashmir with power and call him “a very stupid suggestion”. In order to demonstrate its purpose, Lone refers to the rise of tensions in the near future, which sees a 48 -hour war -like situation. “Not even a inch on the border,” he said.
Lone said Kashmiris should continue now. “Pakistani or without Pakistan, we have to get out of this chaos, we have to get out of this,” he said.
Expressing a deep sense of regret about the failures of the separatist movement, “The Hurriyat conference had a lot of opportunities, we stopped somewhere. And we could get something for our people.
In the sincere acceptance of past failures, Lone said that the shift of the mainstream towards politics was born of a personal belief to maintain a “real political process”, not from political compliance.
Reflected on his journey, Lone said, “I don’t regret the other side of the fence, but the only regret, we couldn’t do anything. Many things could be done, but we could not, but he summarized the heart change with a Hindi proverb:” Aaye Durust Aaye (never better). ”
He said that he was not in the race for any position such as Lone, Prime Minister or MLA, which deals with the transition from the separatist to the main politics, and that he was motivated by the desire to repay his people. “I think I have to pay back. This is a repayment time for me,” he said.
He said that the new political narrative for people will go beyond basic opportunities such as roads, power and water to focus on the future of the new generation. “We need to talk about their training, health facilities and future expectations of establishing business.” He said.
He emphasized that the primary motivation for his new political journey is the next generation, which he said was the biggest wounded of the conflict. “Violence did not give us anything. Violence what Yahan Par Barbaadi Hello Laayi Hai (Violence brought destruction here),” he said, “finished generations”.
Lone observed that a Kashmir is not “anywhere” today and “on the receiving side” is a situation that has attributed to years of violence.
He objected to people, called them not to see them as India and try to find a space for them, not from the lens of political parties such as BJP or Congress.
He warned that those who try to defeat India “failed miserable” and that people should now accept this fact.
In the direct assessment of the post -370 situation, Lone said that although the provision is politically empty, it was a “psychological victory for the Kashmir.
Although the BJP government won the “military war” by eliminating Article 370, he said that he had “lost” Kashmiris, making people feel “repressed” and “suppressed”.
However, Lone was quick to indicate that there was a “very small man” to advise Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but the central government called Kashmiris not to “embrace” and not to see the region through a “prism of a vote bank”.
He added that the government should “come and feel Kashmir with his hands” and “give a soothing effect” and listen to the voices beyond political parties.
On the security front, Lone stressed that the situation was “first -class”, but “the power of the bar” and that the biggest wounded in Kashmir was “trust”. He said that a reconciliation process should start, not among countries, but among the peoples.
He said that a new “sincerity” section should be initiated with the new generation that is not aware of the past.
