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| Displaced Kashmiri nationalists did it again, Mirwaiz shown his place | | Chandigarh Encounter | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 25: On October 21, a large number of displaced Kashmiri nationalists, besides other pro-India elements, demonstrated their resolve in New Delhi and very courageously took on and exposed the Kashmiri separatists like Syed Ali Shah Geelani and his Maoist supporters like Arundhati Roy and Varavara Rao. In the process they suffered at the hands of the Delhi Police. Instead of booking Geelani, Roy and Rao for their seditious speeches, the Delhi police arrested a large number of nationalists. Their only crime was that they had done all that they could to prevent Geelani and Roy from making seditious speeches and spewing venom on India. Notwithstanding the police oppression and notwithstanding inaction on the part of the Union Home Ministry, they succeeded in making the nation aware of the nature of danger the likes of Geelani, Roy and Rao posed to the country's unity and integrity. They did what the Union Home Ministry and Delhi Government should have done. And, it happens. It is the common people who defend and champion the national cause when those responsible for the unity and integrity fail to discharge their duties. They are the backbone of the nation.
Anyway, immediately after Delhi witnessed a confrontation between the nationalists and enemies of India, Jammu witnessed a similar scene. Actually, a number of young men belonging to the youth wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took on J&K Democratic Freedom Party chief Shabir Ahmad Shah at Premier Hotel, Residency Road. They stormed the venue from where Shah was to address a press conference after his release from jail. They hackled and roughed up Shah and disrupted his whole anti-India programme. They created a scene, with the supporters of Shah doing everything to protect him from the wrath of the nationalists. Order was restored only after the police swung into action. As expected, the police, instead of booking Shah under the charge of sedition, took into custody several BJP activists. Hardly matters. The nationalists wanted to make it loud and clear that they would not allow the Kashmiri separatists to use the sacred soil of Jammu for preaching anti-India views and they did it braving al odds.
Chandigarh today witnessed a similar scene. All-Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC-M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who left Srinagar the other day to tour different parts of India, including Chandigarh, Kolkata and Delhi, to educate the Indian public opinion and enlist the support of Indians so that J&K becomes independent of India, was to address an anti-India seminar at Chandigarh. It was organized by the International Democratic Party (IDP), which is known for its open support to the Kashmiri separatists. As soon as the Mirwaiz started delivering his anti-India speech, a large number of displaced Kashmiri nationalists together with their supporters pounced upon the Mirwaiz and disrupted the seminar. They were shouting slogans like "Bharat Mata Ki Jai." According to reports, the outraged nationalists manhandled and thrashed the Mirwaiz and there was a serious clash between the nationalists and anti-national forces.
Convinced that the situation might go out of hand, the police swung into action. Again, as expected, the police took action against the nationalists and allowed the Mirwaiz and his supporters go scot-free. It hardly matters. The objective of the nationalists was to show the Mirwaiz his rightful place and they did that in a remarkable way. Their slogan was that free speech didn't mean a license to preach sedition.
It is, however, a different matter that the J&K CM doesn't subscribe to this view. Reacting to what happened in Chandigarh, he told reporters in Jammu: "I have no take on this incident but it is the reaction of people to their (Hurriyat leaders') policies and programmes and it is bound to happen. I don't condone it. We are very proud to our democracy, which has always given the liberty to the people of different ideologies and opinions to express themselves." What the CM told reporters was on expected line. It would be too much to expect that the CM would make common cause with nationalists.
One thing is clear: The Kashmir nationalists, who have been languishing in different parts of the country since early 1990, and other nationalist forces are determined to defeat the sinister game-plan of the likes of the Geelani, Mirwiz and others of their ilk. They are the hope of the country. They need to be appreciated. For, they are discharging their duties towards the nation overlooking threats to their life and limbs. It is indeed ironic, rather disturbing, that those responsible for the country's unity and integrity are allowing the likes of Geelani and the Mirwaiz to carry on their anti-India campaign under their very nose. |
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