New Delhi : National Conference Member Parliament Hasnain Masoodi in a statement under Rule 377 highlighted in the Parliament voiced grave concerns over childhood cancer confronting the country’s healthcare system.
Speaking on the issue in the Lok Sabha Justice (Retd) Masoodi said that the alarming incidence of cancer in children and the high mortality rate is a cause of grave concern. The number of children diagnosed with cancer each year is half a million and one sixth of the cases diagnosed are from India. About 76805 children each year are diagnosed to be suffering from cancer. While in developed Countries with high income the survival rate is upto 80 percent the overall recovery rate of such patients in India is less than 20 percent, Masoodi stated. He emphasised that only 34 percent of childhood cancer cases reach hospitals. Masoodi suggested setting up regional healthcare centres for childhood cancer cases. He reminded the government to take steps to bridge the gap in healthcare and ensure early detection of childhood cancer to combat healthcare inequity. He suggested integrating IT tools with the healthcare system to facilitate Tele consultation for the benefit of the patients in far flung areas.
Rubaiyya Sayeed’s kidnap case was a well-scripted ploy, Says BJP’s Brig Gupta
Jammu: Brig Anil Gupta (retd) the J&K BJP Spokesman on Wednesday said that what happened in Kashmir during 1990’s was part of a well-scripted ploy written, directed and enacted by those forces whose singular aim was to launch religious ‘jihad’ in Kashmir.
Responding to ongoing debate on the role played by a few important individuals and certain landmark events that led to the ‘genocide’ of Kashmiri Hindus as shown in the movie “Kashmir Files.
He said script began to unfold in the summer of 1931 with none other than Sheikh Abdullah as the major player who founded the Muslim Reading Room Group with a minor role being played by Abdul Qadir whose fiery speech against the Hindu Maharaja in an event organised by the former under its banner sowed the seeds of communal hatred between the Hindus and Muslims.
Brig Gupta said Sheikh wanted to rule a Muslim Kashmir and hence launched the Quit Kashmir movement which was ostensibly a warning for the Hindus to quit Kashmir.
“While leading the Quit Kashmir movement he minced no words while demeaning the Hindus and exhorted the Kashmiri Muslims to rise against the “tyranny of the Dogras,” he said.
Brig Gupta said the script continued to unfold with a change in players over time.
The focus of the script though remained unchanged. The control was gradually wrested by the inimical religious zealots across the fence who kept choosing the enactors to suit their designs, he said.
“With the Afghans succeeding to overthrow the mighty Soviets from their land and their renewed focus once again shifted towards Kashmir in the 80s. What has been shown in Kashmir Files is no fiction but just a part of the tragic events,” he said.
Gupta said Rubiya Sayeed kidnap case was a part of the same script aimed at strengthening the hands of the jihadis to fulfil the cherished dream of a monolith Kashmir.
“Did Dr Farooq Abdullah who now claims to have opposed the release of the terrorists not know that Rubiya was kept by the kidnappers in a luxurious house in Srinagar itself?” he questioned.
He said most of the Kashmiris with their ears to the ground knew and murmured that “kidnapping” was a drama and she was shifted to a house called Girdhar Niwas, owned by a Kashmiri Hindu family earlier, and later sold to the then Chairman of J&K Bank in the early 80s.
Brig Gupta stated that the house is located on the track that connects Brain and Nishat Power House. Incidentally, a few distances away is located the infamous hut where Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee was kept under house arrest and became a victim of the same ploy leading to first political murder of independent India during the regime of Sheikh Abdullah.
Thus, both Mufti Mohd Sayeed and Dr Farooq Abdullah were enacting their scripted roles for achieving the ultimate aim.
What happened thereafter and the mayhem that led to the ‘exodus’ of Kashmiri Hindus is well known.
Brig Gupta cautioned the Gupkaris that by trying to change the narrative by bringing in extraneous issues, they are further alienating the people of India who are shell-shocked after learning the truth.
