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Growing cases of harassment and unit against Kashmiris residing extracurricular Jammu and Kashmir reverberated successful the J&K Assembly connected Tuesday (February 3, 2026), with some the ruling National Conference (NC) and the Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking the Centre’s involution into the matter.
Raising the contented during the session, PDP MLA Waheed Ur Rehman Para said incidents of “hate crimes” against Kashmiri students and workers extracurricular the Union Territory were connected the rise. He moved an adjournment question seeking an “urgent treatment connected the information of Kashmiris”.
‘Disturbing trend’
“Hate crimes, intimidation, and carnal assaults faced by members of the Kashmiri assemblage surviving extracurricular the Union Territory are profoundly disturbing. These incidents person created an ambiance of fearfulness and insecurity among families,” Mr. Parra said, urging Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and the Union Home Minister to instrumentality factual steps and nonstop a beardown connection against identity-based discrimination.
Legislators of the ruling NC besides staged a sit-in extracurricular the Assembly, demanding restoration of Statehood, law guarantees, and an extremity to the harassment of Kashmiris extracurricular J&K. “Time is due to reconstruct J&K’s Statehood. We besides question the attraction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Mr. Shah to extremity the harassment of Kashmiris extracurricular the Union Territory. It has present go fashionable to people Kashmiris successful states similar Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand,” NC MLA Tanvir Sadiq said.
He said the reports of a aesculapian assemblage being unopen down allegedly owed to the beingness of Muslim students and repeated attacks connected Kashmiris were “deeply concerning”. “Our protestation is aimed astatine the Government of India. We privation them to perceive to our concerns,” Mr. Sadiq said.
Meanwhile, erstwhile J&K main curate and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti accused the NC of failing to rise the contented effectively. “First, it was young Tabish, who was astir beaten to decease successful Uttarakhand. Now, an aged Kashmiri is being harassed portion the perpetrators roam free. Where are the MPs of J&K who should beryllium raising their voices arsenic specified attacks go routine?” she said. “Instead of upholding Raj Dharma, State governments appear to be granting soundless patronage to mob violence, treating hatred arsenic a shortcut to governmental success. Politics of fearfulness has replaced the regularisation of law,” Ms. Mufti said.
