New Delhi: February 19, 2019. (PCP) Prof.Bhim Singh, Chief Patron of National Panthers Party who happened to be Member of National Integration Council & 15 year old Member of J&K Legislature today appealed the media to convey to the country men the sentiments and expressions being conveyed by politicians and statesmen regarding the boiling situation in several regions of the country and J&K in particular so that 70 years old blunder (more than a mistake) by keeping temporary provision Article 370 is amended without delay. The NPP Supremo expressed shock that the real message which he has been trying to convey to the countrymen and the world for more than 50 years has not been extended. He believes and beliefs that unless this temporary provision of Article 370 is amended/removed there could be resolution of J&K.

1. Let the whole world understand and my countrymen also that I have not been made a permanent citizen of J&K as temporary Article 370 does not permit/allow the Parliament of India to legislate/make laws in respect of Defence, Foreign Affairs, Communication & Allied Matters. All the three subjects were handed over to the Union of India by the then Ruler of J&K on October 26, 1947. Several rulers like Hyderabad and Junagarh have never signed the Instrument of Accession. 575 states along with the two above mentioned states were integrated with the Union of India and announced through the Constitution of India on January 26, 1950. The NPP Supremo who is Sr. Advocate of the Supreme Court of India, Postgraduate in Law with distinction from London University in 1972 & three times elected legislator of J&K Assembly has been beating drums from Kashmir to Kanyakumari seeking cooperation of all countrymen and political parties for the support to persuade the Parliament of India to amend Article 370 of the Constitution which has been sulking in the Constitution for the past 70 years as a temporary provision. The NPP Supremo has been appealing to the entire countrymen, politicians both friends and foes to support integration of J&K with the rest of the country and why so?

2. J&K has a separate Constitution enacted by the Constituent Assembly of J&K which was not created or constituted by any constitutional forum or agency in 1951.

3. That three subjects which Maharaja of J&K acceded to the Union of India like other princes namely Defence, Foreign Affairs, Communications and Allied Matters were not handed over by the Constituent Assembly to the Parliament of India. The Parliament of India elects eight Members of Parliament from J&K to Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha but none of them has any privilege and constitutional right to move any amendment in Article 370 so that temporary 370 continues to be more than permanent. Is not unconstitutional? Is it not illegal and against the supremacy of the Constitution of India? The Constitution itself has claimed that J&K is integral part of India. Why J&K has been kept this way for 70 years?

4. What is happening in J&K is surprising as books taught in the schools do not mentioned that J&K is integral part of India. Naturally, the Constitution of India is not applicable and to the utter surprise of all countrymen that the Parliament of India has not dared/cared to amend temporary Article 370 and put in the Constitution that J&K is integral part of India like other 575 states including Baroda whose ruler had signed the Instrument of Accession in 1948.

5. NPP Supremo felt surprised that many old friends/political mates have been conveying strong resentment to him since yesterday when a media channel had covered his interview. NPP Supremo said that he had told press and all media in his interview that J&K Govt. should have taken uniform action against all the Hurriyat leaders if they considered the blunders of the Hurriyat Conference. He said that his friends are accusing me least caring to understand that why top leaders of the Hurriyat Conference have been kept untouched/they are under full security cover whereas five of them have been affected. Why the law of the land Indian Penal Code does not apply to all those who are violating the law of the land? Why Indian Penal Code is not applicable in J&K? Why fundamental rights in Chapter-III of the Constitution of India do not apply to the citizens of India in J&K? Why these double standards?

NPP Supremo urged the media to kindly to use his (Bhim Singh) full sentence/interview or delete all this is the request he made to the media as he has been editing a newspaper for the past 25 years and also belongs to that fraternity. NPP Supremo urged Parliament of India to integrate entire State of J&K (84,000 sq. miles) with the Union of India as per the Instrument of Accession signed as per the constitutional mandate British Parliament Act of India’s independence. Unless J&K is integrated with the rest of the country as was done in respect of 575 states there shall be no peace. This is I am writing for the information of Kashmiri leaders who had asked yesterday that India should decide the final settlement. The final settlement is J&K has been integral part of the Union of India. J&K should enjoy entire Constitution of India including its Chapter-III on fundamental rights. The Indian Flag from Kanyakumari to Kashmir should extend to the entire country including in J&K. That is the final resolution and the only solution.