ISLAMABAD, Aug 30: The chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples League, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, has said every coercive method to ensure public participation in the September/October assembly elections of Kashmir would be resisted by the people of Kashmir.

He said the root cause of tension and turmoil in the region needed a credible, dependable and internationally-guaranteed road-map to address the situation.

In a statement on Friday, Mr Rehmani said not the Indian constitution with its too narrow and restricted scope, but only by applying the UN charter and the Security Council resolutions on Kashmir the 55 years old turmoil could be brought to an end.

He said the conditions of the state were not conducive for elections, as they would bring further miseries to the people of Kashmir as before.

He further said ethnic cleansing for the last 12 years had eliminated a generation of Kashmir and the state-sponsored brutalities, extra-judicial killings, forceable disappearances, humiliation of women, Police raids and searches and displacing of inhabitants and application of draconian laws like POTA, were continuing unabated in the State of Jammu and Kashmir. He said after martyring a generation of the people and forcing thousands of Kashmiris to take shelter in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir, sowing seeds of alarming corruption since 1947, India’s claims to a transparent honest politics and administration looked ridiculous in Kashmir, and could not hoodwink the public opinion determined to continue the present struggle of freedom for Kashmir.