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| Geelani calls for 50-hrs strike | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Apr 27- Hurriyat Conference headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Monday called for fifty-hour long strike from Wednesday evening to protest against harassment of youth, failure of government to release Kashmiri detainees, holding of elections and other varied reasons.
The chairman of the Hurriyat Conference faction Syed Ali Shah Geelani said, he urges people to observe complete strike from 6 pm on April 28 to the evening of April 30. “I vehemently appeal people of all walks of life including transporters, trader’s federations, educational institutions, auto drivers and others to lend their full support to make the strike call a success and express their contribution for the struggle,” he said, “adding, “Hurriyat Conference makes a fervent appeal to people to ready themselves mentally for offering this sacrifice and show unity in action to impress that a nation under the clutches of colonial powers has nothing but resort to silent protest and shuts their ways of income to impress upon world community that people of Kashmir do not acknowledge 62 years of Indian rule and declare that nothing is safe in slavery.”
“By way of providing Kashmir’s land to Non-locals on lease, we are being devoid of our land resource; there is western attack on our culture, education, information media, our religion and there is grave violation of Human rights. Every possible method is being adopted to stupefy the youth via drugs, alcohol, films and others means,” he said.
The decision to amend and pre-pone the already announced strike call for April 30, a spokesman of the amalgam said, was taken at Majlis-a-shora (advisory council) meeting of the faction with Syed Ali Shah Geelani in chair. He also urged people to completely boycott the elections.
Pertinently, the Hurriyat faction had warned of mass agitation if the Government failed to release all Kashmiri detainees by April 30.
The authorities have put the veteran leader under house arrest for past 24 days to thwart his anti-election campaign.
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