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| Martyr's Day: Jammu lawyers stage protest, Kashmiri Pandit migrants observe 'black day' | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, July 13: The Jammu High Court Bar Association (JHBA) today staged a demonstration demanding the abolishment of the Martyrs' Day holiday, while Kashmiri Pandit migrants observed a 'black day'.
Martyrs' Day is observed in Jammu and Kashmir on July 13 every year to remember the people who were killed in firing by soldiers of Dogra ruler Maharaja Hari Singh on this day in 1931 during protests against his autocratic rule.
The JHBA lawyers organised a a free legal consultancy camp at the high court complex here in defiance of the state holiday.
The lawyers held black banners reading "No Martyr's Day," "Not our holiday" and "It is our working day."
Alleging that the incident of July 13, 1931, had not been portrayed right, Jammu Bar president B S Slathia appealed to Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra to declare July 13 a working day.
As part of a conspiracy against the then Maharaja, who had favoured independence of India, some communal elements made an attempt on this day in 1931 to scare away the Kashmiri Pandits at the behest of the British rulers, Slathia alleged.
Panun Kashmir, an organisation representing Kashmiri Pandit migrants, said the community observed the holiday as "black day" as it was a reminder of large scale arson, loot and sectarian carnage against minority Hindus.
"The seeds of genocide and ethnic cleansing of the community from the Valley were sown on this day," a spokesperson of Panun Kashmir said.
The organisation also urged the government to abolish the public holiday.
Kashmir Pandit Conference thanked to all who observed July 13, 2018 as "Black Day" on the call given by KPC and adopted different non-violent ways to demonstrate their pent up emotion like wearing black badges, switching off lights as a mark of protest and to mobilize public opinion against the atrocities and Human Right Violations of KP Community.
Addressing his party activists and supporters at New Delhi today on July 13, 2018, Kundan Kashmiri , President KPC told to the gatherings that July, 13, 1931, exodus and martyrs days are unforgettable remembrances of the past which have left indelible imprint on the minds of the people of Kashmiri Pandit Community and created a big wound which will never heal till we achieve our goal. These were days of turbulences when the wall of trust between Kashmiri Muslims and Kashmiri Pandits fell down all of the sudden and turned into rubble.
All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference, commemorating the persecution inflicted upon Kashmiri Hindus on 13th July 1931, observed it as a Black Day today and held a massive protest demonstration outside the Rajbhawan Jammu, where a large number of community members, including all socio-political organisations, participated in it. It was on this darkest day of 13th July 1931 when the communal & anti national elements laid the deep foundation of their sinister designs, in the pious land of Kashyap Rishi. With a mayhem orchestrated by the conspirators of violence & anarchy, Kashmiri Hindus were murdered, their properties looted & burnt down and psychologically intimidated with physical bashings & verbal abuse. The perverted anti secular & anti national theory of these elements had a practical culmination in 1990, with the ethnic cleansing of minorities in Kashmir valley. This was stated by Advocate Ravinder Raina, President ASKPC who added that ironically Muslim elite in the state were used by the Britishers against the Maharaja, who had pleaded independence from Britain in the Round Table Conference of 1930 in London. The very students, whom the maharaja had sent to AMU for higher studies on state exchequer, became the pioneers of the unfounded resentment against the Hindu Maharaja. How successive governments recognised the perpetrators of violence as the martyrs, is a subject which should be deliberated by the nationalist & secular forces of the state, added Dr T.K.Bhat General Secretary ASKPC & other community speakers. |
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