My.Tarigami, head of CPI (M). File | Image source: Nissar Ahmad
The CPI(M) Party Congress passed a resolution on Saturday (5 April 2025) calling on the Centre to restore comprehensive democracy and democracy in Jamu and Kashmir.
The resolution was proposed by My Tarigami, a member of the Party Central Committee and legislator, who said that the unconstitutional abolition of Articles 370 and 35A has dismembered and lowered the state and forked it into Union Territory (UTS) has created a deep political vacancy, creating uncertainty and alienation among people.
“Civil liberties, human rights and democratic freedoms continue to be eroded. Arbitrary arrests under draconian laws like the UAPA and PSA have become the norm. Hundreds of political activists and journalists remain incarcerated inside and outside Jammu and Kashmir. Youth are being denied job opportunities under the pretext of security verification, while passports are withheld on flimsy grounds,” the resolution said.
It said that despite the many oppressive measures taken by the center led by the BJP, people voted heavily in polls held after the seven-year gap and ruled against the coalition government. The resolution stated that the center continues to undermine democratic judgments, which requires the government to restore professional domestic products, protect land and work rights, restore democratic citizens and trade unions rights, release political detainees and journalists, and terminate the inseparable arrest of young people on unfounded allegations.
Later in the day, Mr Tarigami told the media that J&K was still part of the country, “not coercion, but because of the will of the J&K people”. What happened in the region was the beginning of an attack on India’s constitution, he said.
Tarigami, citing the lieutenant governor who transferred 48 J&K executive service officials without consulting the elected government, said the people of the state were “deemed as oppressed subjects.”
The Party Congress also passed resolutions requiring recognition of basic needs such as food, shelter, employment, pension, education and health care as fundamental rights; the WAQF (Amendment) bill passed by the Parliament and the withdrawal of the draft national policy framework for agricultural marketing, as it is a sutterfuge to smuggle three repealed farm laws.
publishing – April 5, 2025 11:15 pm ist
