The National Conference rode to the crest of power in the wake of the accession of the State ofJammu and Kashmir to India with its "Naya Kashmir Manifesto". On paper, it looked as a secular,progressive and democratic model hoping to shape the future of the State by providing a political andeconomic agenda for the amelioration of the lot of the common man. But in practice, it aimed atreorganisation of the State into a political system which had a favourable bias f or the Muslimmajority.By the introduction of land reforms in the State, the Hindus were hit severely as it deprived them evenof their small holdings. They were forced to seek migration to towns and outside the State to earn aliving. Many enactments were passed in succession in the year 1964 like Abolition of Jagirdari Act,Distressed Debtors Relief Act and, in 1976, the Agrarian Reforms Act. These Acts were all contrivedto the detriment of the Hindu community and as a prelude to its destruction. Under the garb ofcommunal amity, equality and the provision of opportunities for the suppressed and the downtrodden, the Government in utter disregard to the principle of universal right to equality ofopportunity and protection against discrimination on the basis of religion, promoted the cause of theMuslim majority of the State.The rules for recruitment to State Government Services were changed from time to time to suit theMuslim majority, as also the rules for admission into educational institutions f or professional andhigher education. As a result the Hindus in the Valley faced discrimination in admission to schools,professional institutions and universities, in government jobs, placements, transfers and promotionsand discrimination in the distribution of loans and subsidies for setting up private enterprises.While in the rest of India there were safeguards for the protection of minority rights, in Kashmir itwas the other way round. The majority rights were safeguarded, promoted and glorified with totaldisregard for the legitimate rights of the minority which faced a perpetual squeeze at all levels, on allfronts: constitutional, judicial, bureaucratic, administrative and social. As a result, the lands andestates of the minority Hindus were forfeited, temple properties anexed and the community memberseased out of important positions and portfolios through a perfectly orchestrated plan, thus, excludingthe community from the administrative apparatus of the State.The voice of the minority community got drowned in the cacophony of Islamic revivalism andfundamentalism as it lost even its feeble representation when the only constituency of Habbakadal,which had a Hindu majority, was redefined to the total disadvantage of the Hindus, rendering themineffective even from electing their representative to the State Legislature. Most of the communitymembers had to resort to the only method of appeal left to them for the redressal of their grievances;that was to knock at the doors of Justice as is evident from the innumerable individual and collectivewrit-petitions of the community admitted in the law courts against the administration, bureaucracyand other institutions of the State. Unfortunately, they faced disappointment a number of times fromthe State Judiciary as a result of which the Hindus had to move the Supreme Court of India forjustice. One case might make the point viz. Triloki Nath Tiku & others vs. the State where the