 Today all the left parties have given a nationwide call for huge demonstrations on the issue of the BJP having scrapped Article 370 of the Constitution, 35A and also the fact of the denial of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir, making Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh into two separate union territories. I think this is a very, very big assault on the constitution of India, on democracy, on secularism and also on federalism. By misusing the Indian parliament, the Modi government has actually betrayed the people of Jammu and Kashmir because they are the first stakeholders of all this thing but you have kept them in a sort of jail and you have taken away all their individual rights, their human rights and without consulting with them and not only with consulting, the question is to keep them, keep them in a jail. Political leaders put under house arrest and subsequently under arrest, complete military clampdown, complete clampdown on information flow, communication channels of people have been shut down. Then you bring in bills into the parliament in a completely surreptitious manner, bills that you have not consulted people about, the members of parliament themselves have not had a chance to look at those bills, engage with those bills. The argument that it is this that keeps Kashmir away from the rest of the country is going against the entire basis on which this country was put together because you cannot buy land in Nagaland, you cannot buy land in Arunachal in Mizoram, you cannot buy land in Himachal if you are not a subject of the state and this was done to protect the cultural identity of these places and in the case of Kashmir, this law was introduced by the Dogra rulers to prevent people from Punjab settling down in Kashmir and now it is presented as if it was something done in favor of the Muslims. All successive central governments totally neglected the commitments that were given to Jammu and Kashmir so far as development was concerned, so far as industrialization was concerned so far as the autonomy was concerned. But the BJP government has gone overboard, they have not at all even held the assembly elections, in fact now it is very clear why Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections have been continuously postponed because now they want to have it into a union territory ruled directly from Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir state has been dissolved according to the presidential proclamation and as a result of this, this is going to create tremendous turmoil in Kashmir in the days to come. The blackout in Kashmir is like a big blackout in the whole country, a blackout of democracy, a blackout of secularism and this is what they wanted and this is what they have got. We all want to talk to family and when we know that the situation is not good, certain things are not good, we know it is a war like situation. Might be possibility there is no war, everything is fine, people are saying there is curfew, there are no protests, there are no casualties, but the thing is we want to speak. We are being suppressed, I am feeling helpless myself and I know nobody can help me and going Kashmir back, looking for my family that's not a solution. How can we express our feelings, we are not able to contact our parents, mother, father, we don't know where they are. My father is in a district in charge, even I am not able to talk to him. How can we think of a common man, how can we think of a poor student, how we will contact him, I am not able to contact him instead of being in charge of the district hospital. If your family is at your place and you are here, communication is bad, you don't have, what will be your reaction, I am asking you. I am taking anything and everything but I am saying boss this away. I am talking on a very genuine ground, this is not the way. We have seen too much, I am a Kashmir born, so my emotion is quite at a high pitch, though I am not crying like Farooq Abdullah cried, but I also feel very violated that in parliament the minister of home affairs can blatantly lie and the lie is exposed and this country had so much property, so much dignity, all of that has just completely been annihilated. And this decision is a slap in the face of secularism as an ideal of this country. We are seeing that there is a complete subversion of the democratic process within the parliamentary democratic process as well. So I think there is an attack on people's right to know, people's right to participate, to be consulted in a democracy and the manner in which this has happened raises red flags for the state of Indian democracy. This is fascism and unfortunately the entire media has been bought over, they are all praising this as a great act of uniting the nation. This is actually the beginning of a very long period when gradually the very idea of India is going to be destroyed.