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| DU students, teachers express solidarity with | | Sangarsh Samiti; come on streets. ‘Condemn provocative statements of Mehbooba, Omar’ | | New Delhi | Aug 13
In a remarkable display of solidarity with the ongoing agitation over the issue of Amarnath land transfer, students and teachers of Delhi University (DU) today came out on street to support the entire movement for the restoration of land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board. The protest at Delhi University's Arts Faculty was organized by the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) along with the Amarnath Action Group (AAG) of Delhi comprising of Kashmiri Hindu refugees and Dogra community members of Jammu. The group has been spearheading the agitation in New Delhi for last almost 45 days.
The agitators were angry over the repeated claims by the vested interests that the pilgrimage was just 100-150 years old and maintained that the ‘The Holy Shrine of Amarnath has been a pilgrimage centre for thousands of years as is clear from the historical references of Nilmatapurana and Rajatarangni, the two treatises on History of Kashmir."
"Since the separatists and their supporters like the PDP and National Conference see the Holy Shrine as one of the last vestiges of the glorious syncretism of Kashmir, they wish to erase this so as to complete the process of religious as well as ethnic cleansing" said Vikas Dahiya, National Executive member and Joint Secretary of Delhi State ABVP.
"How long will we suffer at the hands of the Kashmiri separatist mindset?" he asked.
Slogans were raised against National Conference, PDP, Hurriyat, and all pan-Islamic separatist organizations. There is a well-planned move to suppress the voice of the nationalists in Jammu. The protesters condemned Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah and other Kashmiri Muslim separatists for fomenting the present turmoil by their anti-Hindu, Anti-Jammu and anti-national outrageous statements, Vikas added.
"The movement which was initiated in Jammu has reached every nook and corner of India and will only intensify in the coming days; if the Government continues to remain silent. The revoking of the land transfer order has hurt the sentiments of the nationalists of J&K State and it is being seen as a planned assault on the cherished beliefs and holy places." said Aditya Raj Kaul, Co-founder Roots in Kashmir; a Worldwide Kashmiri Hindu Youth Initiative and member of Amarnath Action Group (AAG).
"We reiterate our full support to the peaceful mass movement in Jammu under the leadership of Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti. It is a people's movement which will soon meet success." said Nupur Sharma, an activist of the ABVP.
The hundreds of protesters assembled at the Arts Faculty and then moved towards Kranti Chowk. In the coming days, students plan to initiate an awareness campaign on the holy Shrine of Amarnath in various colleges. |
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