People’s Conference chairman Sajad Ghani Lone Friday said that banning Jamaat-e-Islami and resorting to mass arrests have achieved nothing in the past, nor will achieve anything now.
He suggested New Delhi to rethink on its decision banningJeI, which has invested heavily in the education sector across Jammu andKashmir.
“Banning JeI is a tried and tested act which has failedmiserably in the past. New Delhi needs to have a rethink on it. I don’t supportthis ban and condemn it,” he said.
Sajad was accompanying his party candidate Raja Ajaz Ali whofiled nomination papers for Lok Sabha election at Baramulla on Friday.
Sajad said earlier the JeI was banned by Shaikh Abdullah.”However, despite ban and arrest of its leaders, it established around 700schools across the state in which thousands of students are receivingeducation.”
Sajad said that New Delhi should pause and think what it hasachieved “by investing on dynastic political parties like the NC and the PDP.If JeI established around 700 schools despite facing state reprisal in thepast, New Delhi need to realise it,” he said.
“The dynastic political parities pampered by New Delhi allalong could not establish even a single educational institution instead,” hesaid.
While reacting to the ‘friendly contest’ between the NC andthe Congress in Kashmir, Sajad said, “Both political parties have remainedfriendly in the past too, be it in eroding the special status of the state,hanging two Kashmiris, bringing in PSA, POTA or NIA.”
While showing confidence in his candidate for the Baramullaparliamentary constituency, Sajad said his party candidate will win with anoverwhelming majority.
He said his candidate will be ambassador of people ofKashmir at New Delhi.
“The special status to the state which is part of internaldimension of k-issue between Delhi and Srinagar will be presented and defendedby our candidate in the parliament better than what traditional politicalparties had been doing since last seven decades,” he said.