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| Sri Sri phones Vohra, Sankaracharya calls for his removal | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Aug 4
A situation keeps pushing Jammu on the edge with every passing day, two leading spiritual and religious figures of the country today made their intervention as one sought immediate end to the violent protests while other called for removal of the Governor NN Vohra.
The internationally renowned spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shanker leading the Art of Living Foundation today phoned Governor NN Vohra and called for immediate steps to restore peace in restive Jammu. Sri Sri, who is currently touring Germany also spoke to Syed Ali Shah Geelani appealing to avoid a communal turn to the situation.
"The government has committed a big mistake by transferring the land to Sri Amarnath Shrine Board and then revoking the same later in the face of protests, but recourse to violence is a bigger mistake”, Ravi Shanker said in his statement today.
Expressing deep concern over the continuing violent protests over the Amarnath issue, he said that though the people have the freedom to express their opinion and frustration they cannot take recourse to violence. He asked people not to commit another blunder by continuing with violent protests. He has called upon the people to adopt non violent ways of protest and maintain communal harmony.
Meanwhile, a top religious Guru, Puri Sankaracharya Swami Adhokssjananda Devtirth today demanded the sacking of Governor N N Vohra to uphold the Constitution as well as prevent flaring up of communal tension. The Seer, who is visiting North East these days, told mediapersons that the governor had allegedly been appointed with some design and he was implementing these to turn a peaceful region into a troubled one.
The Sankaracharya said the governor was ''still acting as an intelligence man and it has not dawned upon him that he is a constitutional head''. The Seer further alleged that Mr Vohra was instigating the people, allowing the security forces to take the law in their hands.
''I have information that they are planning to arrest some 15 senior journalists also. Reporters of many national and local channels had been removed from the Jammu region,'' he said. He further demanded an investigation into the governor`s role.
''I have serious doubt that he is working under a design,'' he insisted.
On the disputed land transfer issue, he asserted that the land should be handed over to the Amarnath Shrine Board. ''But that can be achieved through a cool head and dialogue between people of Kashmir valley and Jammu. Kashmiris have also realised that. But instead of promoting dialogue, the situation is being provoked,'' he remarked.
''The biggest irony is that Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has no political maturity. He should not have allowed the situation to come to such a pass. Today the anti-social elements are spreading rumours and I fear that communal tension may flare up in this highly sensitive zone,'' he said. |
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