Srinagar, July 1: Peoples Conference chairman Sajad Lone on Thursday said that leaders from this region made people proud at All Party Meeting in New Delhi. He expected that this meeting will start a phase of reconciliation between Delhi and Srinagar.
While addressing a press conference here in Kashmir capital Srinagar, Sajad Lone said leaders represented people of Jammu and Kashmir wholeheartedly. “Not as a politician but as a Kashmir, I can say that all the leaders made people proud and there should be equal marks to all,” he said.
He said there is a need to create environment where delivery should be easy. “We have to make an enabling environment for facilitating the delivery of the issues.”
He said to get back the statehood is our right and it will not be a charity.
He urged the leaders who participated in the meeting to realize that restoration of statehood for J&K etc is a long process and asked them not to create hurdles by rhetorical statements that might be able to address their constituents but would make the delivery difficult. And if delivery becomes difficult there is only one loser which is the people of Kashmir.
While talking about the meeting at New Delhi, Sajad Lone said: “I don’t think there was any single leader who did not make their people proud. All parties especially from the Kashmir region made their people proud. All spoke well and reflected the pain of the people. I as a Kashmir and not as a political leader felt proud that all leaders spoke for the people of Kashmir and reflected their pain in a befitting manner. If we were to give marks, I would give equal marks to all Kashmiri leaders present in the meeting”.
Lone stressed that boycotting elections has yielded no results. “We should look at the other side as well as keeping away the opponents could be a trap. We have boycotted elections for 15-20 years, what if it is a trap to scare away all the good people and bring in their proxies? The leadership would have to look at both sides.” (KNT)