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Jammu & Kashmir
CHANDIGARH, NOV. 21. The Jammu Mukti Morcha, a Jammu based non-political organisation, today said that reorganisation of J&K State was necessary to "solve the Kashmir issue and end the sense of deprivation and identity crisis of the people of Jammu and Ladakh regions". "The trifurcation of the State will not only localise the area of strife, but counter the pernicious influence that Pakistan has created through its propaganda that the whole State is in turmoil and the entire population of J&K harbours grudge against India," JMM president Virender Gupta told reporters here. He claimed that the division of the State would allow all the regions to grow independently as per their respective political aspirations without "interference from each other". "Ladakh can be given the Union Territory status and Jammu can get identity of a separate state. The region has enough industrial, tourism, hydro electric and agricultural potential to meet its basic needs," he said. He dismissed fears that if Jammu was granted separate statehood it would lead to communal divide and further alienate the Kashmir valley. Mr. Gupta alleged that successive governments at the Centre had been discriminating with the Jammu region and said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent announcement of package for the State "has virtually nothing for Jammu". He also said that the Centre should not patronise the Hurriyat Conference "as they do not represent the people of the State. Time and again Hurriyat people talk of going to Pakistan in connection with solving the Kashmir issue, but they should first talk to the Kashmiri Pandits, people of Jammu and Ladakh regions". PTI
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