The delegation is the first high-level foreign visit to Kashmir after the August 5 decision of the Centre to revoke the state’s special status
Current Affairs:Naming Article 370 an inward issue of India, EU parliamentarians visiting Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday said they remain by the nation in its battle against worldwide psychological oppression.
Tending to a question and answer session on the most recent day of their two-day visit to the Valley, the gathering of 23 individuals from European Parliament additionally censured the killing of five workers from West Bengal by fear mongers on Tuesday.
“In the event that we talk about Article 370 it is India’s inner issue. What concerns us is fear based oppression which is a worldwide threat and we should remain with India in battling it. There was a lamentable episode of slaughtering of five honest workers by psychological militants. We denounce it,” said Henri Malosse from France.
He said the group got an instructions from the military and police just as youthful activists and traded “thoughts of harmony”.
Newton Dunn from the UK portrayed the visit, planned for getting a direct appraisal of the circumstance after the denial of the state’s exceptional status under Article 370, as an “eye-opener”.
“We have a place with a spot Europe which is serene following quite a while of battling. Furthermore, we need to see India turning into the most quiet nation on the planet. What’s more, for that we have to remain by India in its battle against worldwide fear based oppression. This visit has been an eye opener and we would advocate what we have seen on ground zero,” he told correspondents.
The assignment is the main elevated level outside visit to Kashmir after the August 5 choice of the Center to repudiate the state’s extraordinary status and bifurcate it into two association regions, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. Wednesday is the latest day of Jammu and Kashmir as a state.
As per MEP from Poland Ryszard Czarnecki, “The global media inclusion appears to be one-sided”.
“When we return to our nations we will advise them regarding what we saw,” he said.
Thierry Mariani, likewise from France, advised the media he had been to India ordinarily and this visit was not to meddle in the inside matter of India yet to get a direct information of the ground circumstance in Kashmir.
Aditi Mehta 