Merinews impact: Hotmail, Rediff make amends accept J&K as India

Abhishek Behl

Finally MSN Hotmail and Rediffmail.com have come around to recognize you as citizens of India, if you happen to be resident of Jammu and Kashmir.
The correction was made only after Merinews published the report regarding the absence of J&K from the list of Indian states available on both these sites.
It is worthwhile to mention that both these sites were not showing Jammu and Kashmir on the list of Indian states on their email registration forms.
A large number of people from Jammu and Kashmir had demanded that government should take immediate action against these sites as these were violating the law of the land.
It is pertinent to mention that Indian Parliament has unequivocally resolved that J&K is and will always be an integral part of the country.
As the emotions of millions of people were involved in the issue, Merinews had talked to senior representatives of MSN and Rediff, who had admitted that omitting Jammu and Kashmir from the list was a serious mistake.
Both MSN and Rediffmail.com came good on their promise of rectifying this technical glitch, which had sent a wave of anger among the residents of Jammu and Kashmir in particular and Indian citizens in general
Appreciating the prompt action taken by these sites, Mohd Shahid, a JK resident, said “I am really happy that merinews took up the cause of the people of the valley and compelled these big corporations to make amends”, adding the people of J&K form an integral part of the country.
That the people of the country were really unhappy with this situation can be clearly made from the fact that a large number of netizens had made put up angry comments against both the sites as well as the government.
Accusing the government of apathy, Mohd Mudassir Alam, had written, “Our political leaders should at least wake up now. Always they claim Kashmir as integral part of India, but when it comes to reality is far way. Even today most of the Kashmiris do not consider themselves neither an Indian or a Pakistani. Today Hotmail, Rediffmail is doing such types of things, if government wouldn't resolve the matter soon, chances are that the whole world will deny it as a part of India.”.
Likewise a number of concerned citizens had demanded that the matter should be taken up at the highest levels, however, the management of these two sites preempted any such thing and corrected the mistake at a war footing.



With inputs from Pritha Roy Choudhury