Sangh Parivar

Lt Gen (retd) S K Sinha, till recently Governor of Jammu and Kashmir [Images],
on Thursday  launched a frontal attack on the state's main political
parties, especially PDP and its patron Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, accusing
him of being "hand in glove" with separatists and fundamentalists.

At the centre of controversy over the land for Amarnath yatra which paralysed the valley in recent days, Sinha denounced PDP as "anti-national".

Sinha,
who laid down office eight days ago, minced no words in admitting that
his relation with Sayeed, who was the state's Chief Minister between
2002 to 2005, had been "very bad from the very beginning".

Disclosing
that he was writing a book throwing light on his eventful tenure, Sinha
said that Sayeed played the "most sinister role in reviving communalism
in the valley" using the ploy of transfer of 100 acres of land in the
valley which was

to be used to provide facility for Amarnath pilgrims.

Two
of the PDP ministers in the cabinet -- Qazi Afzal (forest) and Muzzafar
Hussain Beigh (law) -- were involved in the decision to direct this
forest land at Baltal but Sayeed had used the issue to "promote his
agenda", he said.

"He (Sayeed) wanted to take electoral advantage
of the developing situation but I think it has rebounded on him. The
people have found out the duplicity of his party," he said.

82-year-old
Sinha, who earlier had an equally controversial term as Governor in
Assam before coming to Jammu and Kashmir, also did not spare the Centre
and charged the Congress high command with undermining its own party
Chief Minister Ghulam [Images] Nabi Azad.

"The
PDP has performed a very anti-national role in Kashmir and the pity is
that PDP, for all these years, has been enjoying patronage of Delhi to
the extent that Congress High Command has even undermined the position
of its own party's Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad," the former
Governor said.

Sinha said that he had been informing the Centre
about the activities of Sayeed from time to time but the "Centre goes
ahead by keeping it with the government for long."

He denied that
he had put any pressure on the state government for the transfer of
land and said that the proposal was lying with it for last three years.

This was a propoganda that had been circulated by the anti-national and secessionists and as well as PDP.

"On
the one hand sanctioning the diversion of forest land at Baltal through
its two minister" and on the other they flare up the communal tensions,
he said.

"They (PDP) were trying to hunt with the hound and run
with the hare. Their duplicity stands exposed and their effigies have
been burnt in the streets of Srinagar [Images] by Kashmir mobs," he said.

Sinha
regretted the revocation of the order and termed it a "policy of
appeasement and total surrender" followed by the state government and
done with "total lack of grace".

 "What was worse, to appease the
fundamentalists...they (state) have virtually wound up the Amarnath
Shrine Board," he said, adding this move has had very serious reactions
in Jammu and elsewhere in the country.

http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/jul/03land.htm