Senior CPI (M) leader Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami has demanded that India to rethink its policy of denying government jobs to the families of people involved in freedom struggle in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) as it will prove “counter-productive”.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Tarigami while talking to media said, “This is not something unexpected from Indian rulers. The BJP-led Modi Government has been on this path, and this has been their policy across the country that if someone commits an offense, someone else bears the brunt.”
The former MLA said IIOJK has been a primary target of the Indian government due to demand made by Kashmir people of their right to self determination.
“As far as Indian Constitution and law are concerned, where does it say that if someone demands his right, someone else will be punished? Does it mean their relatives will also be pushed on the same wrong path? Or is there a need to embrace them and bring them closer?” he asked.
Indian Home Minister Amit Shah had said on Sunday that family members of freedom fighters and stone-pelters would be denied government jobs in IIOJK.
