Row Over Dropping ‘Sher-e-Kashmir’: NC Alleges Vendetta

The National Conference (NC) on January 27 took strong exception to the dropping of words ‘Sher-e-Kashmir’, an epithet used for the party founder Sheikh Abdullah, from the nomenclature of Jammu and Kashmir police medals. The party, whose top leaders are in detention since the scrapping of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5 last year, alleged that the administration was taking its “vendetta to a higher level” and distorting history with this move.

“It is a calibrated effort to trim every single symbol of J-K’s political individuality. The present ruling dispensation in New Delhi, heaving with subjective prejudices and complexes against ideals revolving around the Indian Constitution and the spirit of its accommodative federalism, hasn’t ceased its witch-hunt against everything recognizable with Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah,” district president of the party Peer Afaq Ahmad alleged in a statement.

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