TarigamiJammu, Jan 13 (PTI) Jammu and Kashmir CPI(M) leader M YTarigami today termed Army Chief General Bipin Rawat's remarkthat government schools in the state were spreading a"disinformation campaign" as "inappropriate".
In a press conference yesterday, Rawat had said thatsocial media and government schools in the state werespreading a "disinformation campaign" resulting inradicalisation of youth.
"The deep rooted and the massive alienation resulting inunprecedented unrest is in reality the outcome of the processof erosion of special status of J-K," Kulgam MLA Tarigami saidin a statement here.
"What General Rawat has said will only compound thealienation and uncertainty in the state. His remark isinappropriate," he saidRawat had also said that each classroom in governmentschools in J-K have a separate map of the state besides thatof India, which sowed the seeds of thought of some kind of"separate identity" among the children.
Expressing surprise over Rawat's statement, Tarigami saidthere are two flags because J-K has its own constitution owingto the state's special status.
"J-K acceded to India under the guarantees provided bythe Constitution under Article 370. This is because thatKashmir has unique history, ethos and identity," he said.
"Eroding the state's special position is the reason forrise of uncertainty in J-K and also gives an opportunity toothers to fish in the troubled waters," the CPI (M) leadersaid. PTI TASANB.
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