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| PDP's political conduct appreciable | | Kousarnag Yatra | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 4: The controversy over the Kousarnag Yatra is being fierce and fierce with each passing day. The Kashmiri Hindus, who were denied permission to undertake the four-day Yatra through its traditional route in Kashmir, are denouncing both the NC-Congress Government and separatist and communal organizations in the Valley. They are attacking Geelani, Omar Abdullah, Yasin Malik, Shabir Shah, Kashmir's civil society, Jamaat-e-Islami and saying they have radicalized Kashmir valley. They are even questioning the origin of separatists like Geelani and terming him an outsider. They have also been saying that the authorities and the separatists worked together to scuttle the Yatra and accorded a dangerous legitimacy to the ongoing process of radicalization.
In addition, they have decided to take up the issue with the United States' State Department. The Kashmir Overseas Association (KOA), an organization of Kashmiri Hindus living outside India, will take up this issue with the United States' State Department Office of International Religious Freedom, which takes cognizance of religious persecution worldwide. The KOA has described the ban on Yatra to Kousarnag as a deliberate move to "curtail the religious freedom of the minority community, which has already been displaced from its homeland since the eruption of militancy in 1990". The short point is that the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus living in and outside India and those who continue to stay in Kashmir are denouncing all, barring the PDP. The reason is obvious. The PDP is the only party in Kashmir which behaved in a most responsible manner during all these days of the raging controversy. It did not issue or make any controversial statement against the Yatra. On the other hand, it focused its attention on the issues of governance and development, besides exposing the anti-people policies of the NC-Congress coalition Government and their adverse impact on the state's polity, economy and society. During all these more than seven days, its leadership pinpointed the wrongs which have been committed by the ruling coalition during the past five and a half years. It would be better if it also condemns the critics of the Yatra through Kashmir route. |
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