Jailed J&K Liberation Front leader Yasin Malik has submitted an affidavit in the Delhi High Court, claiming he engaged with all dispensations at the Centre since 1990.
Malik, who is lodged in Delhi's Tihar jail since 2019, has defended his position as a non-violent democratic leader and urged the Centre to keep its promises made during 1990 to 1994 when he was in jail. He says the promises made to him by top politicians, bureaucrats, justices and intelligence officials in the 1990s were kept till 2019, even during the first tenure of PM Narendra Modi.
"After my arrest in 1990, I was actively engaged by...the leadership of VP Singh, Chandra Shekhar, PV Narasimha Rao, HD Deve Gowda, Inder Kumar Gujral, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh," read the affidavit, adding: "The promise was kept by every single dispensation...including by PM Narendra Modi in his first phase till 2019. All these dispensations kept on engaging with me."
"On one occasion I was taken from Mehrauli sub-jail to a bungalow in Maharani Bagh where the then home minister Rajesh Pilot and Wajahat Habibullah and certain other IB officers were present... Each one of them requested me to quit armed struggle and restart the movement through peace process... Each one of them assured me that they shall initiate and resolve the Kashmir dispute through a meaningful dialogue process," read the affidavit. He said that the US and the British diplomats stationed in their respective embassies in New Delhi also came with similar proposals to him.
"As I agreed to the reasoning...and decided to quit armed struggle, the government kept its part of promise. After three years of consistent negotiations, I was finally released from jail in May 1994," reads the affidavit. It further stated that when he reached Srinagar, Malik held a press conference declaring a unilateral ceasefire and publicly declared that he would follow the path of nonviolence.
"The government provided bail in all the 32 pending militancy cases related to TADA as part of a single email order. None of these cases against me were pursued, thereafter...under the ceasefire agreement during the dispensation of PV Narasimha Rao," says Malik.
"In complete breach of faith suddenly, the present dispensation in its second consecutive term started trial of...TADA-related cases, which is completely against the spirit, essence and the very genesis of the ceasefire agreement," reads the affidavit.
Malik, who is lodged in Delhi's Tihar jail since 2019, has defended his position as a non-violent democratic leader and urged the Centre to keep its promises made during 1990 to 1994 when he was in jail. He says the promises made to him by top politicians, bureaucrats, justices and intelligence officials in the 1990s were kept till 2019, even during the first tenure of PM Narendra Modi.
"After my arrest in 1990, I was actively engaged by...the leadership of VP Singh, Chandra Shekhar, PV Narasimha Rao, HD Deve Gowda, Inder Kumar Gujral, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh," read the affidavit, adding: "The promise was kept by every single dispensation...including by PM Narendra Modi in his first phase till 2019. All these dispensations kept on engaging with me."
"On one occasion I was taken from Mehrauli sub-jail to a bungalow in Maharani Bagh where the then home minister Rajesh Pilot and Wajahat Habibullah and certain other IB officers were present... Each one of them requested me to quit armed struggle and restart the movement through peace process... Each one of them assured me that they shall initiate and resolve the Kashmir dispute through a meaningful dialogue process," read the affidavit. He said that the US and the British diplomats stationed in their respective embassies in New Delhi also came with similar proposals to him.
"As I agreed to the reasoning...and decided to quit armed struggle, the government kept its part of promise. After three years of consistent negotiations, I was finally released from jail in May 1994," reads the affidavit. It further stated that when he reached Srinagar, Malik held a press conference declaring a unilateral ceasefire and publicly declared that he would follow the path of nonviolence.
"The government provided bail in all the 32 pending militancy cases related to TADA as part of a single email order. None of these cases against me were pursued, thereafter...under the ceasefire agreement during the dispensation of PV Narasimha Rao," says Malik.
"In complete breach of faith suddenly, the present dispensation in its second consecutive term started trial of...TADA-related cases, which is completely against the spirit, essence and the very genesis of the ceasefire agreement," reads the affidavit.
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