Et Report Hajin, July 29 : Launching a scathing attack on Minister for Higher Education Mohammad Akbar lone for claiming that Ikhwani culture was being revived in Hajin area of Bandipora, the son of former Ikhwani commander Kuka Parrey has alleged that the Minister himself used them during Assembly elections to secure his seat. "Ask the Minister who was accompanying him when youth pelted stones on his cavalcade. Mohammad Akbar Lone was accompanied by former Ikhwani commander Abdul Rehman Shaala who was wielding AK-47 in air to scare the protestors," Muslim League District secretary Bandipora Mehraj-u-Din Nanda told adding that all the former renegades including Rashid Billa, Rashid Kabli, Rehman Shaala, Munwar Joshi and Dilawar Pathan are at the beck and call of the Minister. Imtiyaz Ahmed Parrey, senior Congress leader and the son of former Ikhwani commander, Kuka Parrey told that Mohammad Akbar Lone is the biggest Ikhwani himself who has left no stone unturned in tarnishing the image of the Hajin area. "Its reality and a bitter fact that all the surviving Ikhwani commanders are revolving around the Minister and the people of Hajin are aware about this fact. Civil Society member Hajin, Master Abdul Ahad said that Lone is befooling people and misleading media by claiming that Ikhwani's pelt stones on him. "This fellow has ignored his constituency completely and people are waiting eagerly for the day when he would be out of power. It is absolutely baseless to call the agitated youth Ikhwani's as Ikhwani's are the part of his band," he said. One of the Civil Society member from Hajin area told on condition of anonymity that Mohammad Akbar Lone is feeding Ikhwani commanders to fulfill his political interests especially during elections. "it is he who is harbouring all the former Ikhwani commanders and encouraging them to let loose a reign of terror in the area," he said adding that Lone can't mislead people anymore. |