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| Geelani camp plans to alter calender on agitation | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Nov 19 :-Finding that their calls for shutdown and protest rallies have not been receiving as much support from the people as they used to till a fortnight ago, hardliners in the camp of separatists, headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani, plan to keep the ongoing agitation for Azadi limted to districts.
Reports from the camp revealed that the hardliners' future calender on agitation will be a district level map.Under the changed strategy the shutdown and protest rallies will be organised from one district to another.This was being done to ensure that people fully responded to the call for shutdown in each district.
Call for state-wide or valley-wide general strike, reports said will be modified so that out of 10 districts in the valley, people could carry on their normal activities in remaining nine districts.It will be on the basis of rotation so that if work in one district gets affectd, it will go on smoothly l in other districts.
Reports said that even with the advent of cold season people in the valley had not been able to store provisions for consumption during the winter months. This was because of prolonged shutdowns, protst rallies, violence and on account of transport services remaining off the roads. This has generated a lot of anger among people against the hardliners thus forcing them to modify the calender on agitation.
Intelligence reports also suggest that majority of people have started defying Geelani's calls for shutdowns after over six months' civilian strife had forced traders, transporters and those conneted with tourism suffer severe losses. Hotliers, houseboat owners and traders are dismayed over the way they suffered losses because of the failed tourist traffic to the valley during the autumn season.
Those connected with the tourism say that they had good earnings from a heavy tourist traffic between April and first week of June and after the start of agitation "we have had a trickle of visitors visiting Kashmir since June last."
Even the moderates among the separatists seem to be opposed to Geelani's calls for shutdown and protest rallies because whatever support the separatists had received from people started dwindling after people faced many ordeals because of general strike. They said that even the health and education sectors were affected. These moderates favour sustained pro-azadi campaign by organising seminars, conferences and rallies at district and tehsil levels.They believe that whatver goodwill the separatists had gained could be lost if the hardliners did not change their calender on agitation.(KIP)
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