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| Afzal Guru: A martyr in the making | | |
Srinagar,October 11 : Another day in the history of so called Jehad is in the making if the President of India refuses to grant clemency to Mohd.Afzal Guru,sentenced to death on charge of his involvement in the terrorist strike on Parliament on December 13,2001.
And if the inside reports are to be relied on even those,including Jaish-e-Mohammad and the JKLF,favouring clemency to Mohd.Afzal Guru will not miss the opportunity of treating Guru as a martyr.
A couple of militant outfits besides the chief of Tehrik Hurriyat Conference,Syed Ali Shah Geelani,have opposed any attempt on the part of Guru and his family at seeking clemency from the Government of India.They are on record to have said that seeking mercy from the Government of India was a sin.
What seems to have encouraged Kashmiri separatists to bracket Mohd.Afzal Guru with those,including Mohd.Maqbool Bhat,founder President of the JKLF and who was executed on charge of having killed a CID official,whom the separatists treat as martyrs,if Guru was not granted clemency,is the reported statement of Afzal in which he has said that as a JKLF activist he had surrendered and after his surrender he was forced by the security agencies to act as their informer and helper.
In the reported statement Mohd.Afzal Guru has stated that one police officer of the rank of DSP had played a trick which creatd a situation in which his involvement in the terrorist strike on Parliament was established.
Guru's death sentence has already fomented regional divide in Jammu and Kashmir with activists of BJP,VHP,Shiv Sena and ABVP opposing any clemency to him and on the other hand groups of people staging pro-Guru demonstrations in the Kashmir valley.
Even senior politicians in the state had to face an embarrassing situation with their stand on Guru's death sentence.At one stage Chief Minister,Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad,had to face a piquant situation when the Congress high command dissociated itself from the demand voiced by Mr Azad favouring clemency for Mohd.Afzal Guru.Since then Mr Azad has preferred reticence to any political adventure.
Dr Farooq Abdullah's demand for clemency to Mohd.Afzal Guru found no response from the National Conference leaders and activists in Jammu.
Mr Azad's stand had rocked the Congress boat in the Jammu region to such an extent that the Chief Minister's ministerial colleague Mr Mangat Ram Sharma told newsmen here recently that the Congress wanted strict punishment for any criminal or for any one who fomented violence.He did not shirk in dissociating himself from Mr Azad's stand on the death sentence served by the court on Mohd.Afzal Guru.
In the light of these developments if clemency was not granted to Guru he would assume the stature of a martyr for which the separatists were making arrangements.
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