| The Working Committee
have previously expressed their disapproval of the activities of Kashmir
authorities during the past few months in repressing the people of the
State and denying them their normal civil liberties. The Committee had
proposed to send a deputation to enquire into these matters in Kashmir
State and had invited the state authorities to cooperate in this task.
The response from those authorities was not satisfactory and conditions
in various parts of India delayed any action being taken on the previous
resolution. Recent reports state that the Kashmir authorities are preventing
free and fair elections to the State Assembly and have arrested the President
and members of the Election Committee of the Kashmir National Conference.
The Committee takes a serious view of the flouting of public opinion and
of activities which must reduce the coming elections to a farce. |