Alleging gross human rights violation in Kashmir Valley over the past one month or so Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said the people of Jammu & Kashmir were facing untold hardship and that the treatment they were being meted was anything but humanitarian.

Tweeting on the occasion of World Humanitarian Day, Banerjee said human rights had always been a subject close to her heart. Praying for the people of Kashmir the Chief Minister said she could not remain silent watching human rights being violated in the manner it was being violated.

Mamata who is also the president of the All India Trinamool Congress said, “Today is World Humanitarian Day. Human rights have been totally violated in Kashmir. Let us pray for human rights and peace in Kashmir.”

The Chief Minister had been critical of the process the Centre’s divided Jammu & Kashmir and scrap Article 370 and 35A and said the Centre should have discussed the issue with the local people before scrapping it.

Reminding that she had hit the streets on several occasions in the past for the because that the subject (human rights) was very close to her heart cause, she said, “human rights is a subject very close to my heart. In 1995, I was on the road for 21 days to protect human rights violations against deaths in lock-ups.”

During the 90s when Mamata was the Opposition leader she had launched mass movements galvanizing lakhs of Congress workers and later the Trinamool Congress men to protest against the then Jyoti Basu Government on Bhikhari Paswan disappearance case and Champala Sardar rape case.

While in the first case Paswan a Congress supporter from Hooghly remained traceless, never to return with allegations doing the round that he was beaten to death in police custody in the later case she launched a massive movement against a woman being raped by alleged CPI(MP) goons.

Incidentally repeated inquires led police nowhere even as the Marxists called the agitations as a part of her rabble rousing politics. During the Singur movement too she launched a massive protest movement against the CPI(M) in Tapasi Malik murder case which was subsequently handed over to the CBI without much breakthrough even as the CPI(M) alleged how a senior party leader was falsely framed and jailed in the case though nothing came out against him.