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| Clueless Mirwaiz lost cool, failed to satisfy the real civil society | | Kolkata Encounter With Nationalists -- I | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 29: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who is touring different parts of the country to mobilize public opinion in favour of his demand seeking independence from India, is at the receiving end. He was hackled and manhandled in Chandigarh on November 25 and he was accorded a similar treatment at Kolkata on Sunday. He had to be whisked away by security personnel as he moved out of the building where seminar on Kashmir was organized by the Centre for Peace and Progress (read Maoist terrorists). He was not only hackled, but he was confronted with straight and candid questions regarding who he represented in J&K. He had no answers.
The clueless and cornered Mirwaiz sang the same old monotonous and irritating song: "Ours' is an indigenous movement and Pakistan has nothing to do with it. The people of Kashmir want independence. Ours' is a political problem that needs to be tackled politically. The core issue of Kashmir is neither development, nor employment rather it is the sentiment of freedom and that problem needs to be addressed if the Government wants a permanent peaceful situation in the Valley." He only reiterated what Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Mehbooba Mufti, Omar Abdullah, Kashmir High Court Bar Association and the Kashmir-based commentators and media persons have been saying since decades, but without evoking response from any part of the country.
It was former Army chief General Shankar Roy Chowdhury, one of the participants in the seminar, who took on the Mirwaiz and who exposed him and those involved in subversive and anti-India activities. He told the Mirwaiz on his face that he did not represent even the Muslims of Kashmir. In this context, he referred to the attitude of the Gujjar and Bakerwal Muslims to the ongoing secessionists movement. He told the seminarians that these Gujjar and Bakerwal Muslims, who are all Sunnis, have nothing to do with the secessionist movement. He was absolutely right and to the point. Remember, not-so-long-ago, Geelani had publicly declared the Gujjar Muslims as non-Muslims.
General Chowdhury asked the Mirwaiz if "he also represented the people of Jammu and Ladakh"? He himself answered the question saying "Jammu and Ladakh have nothing to do with the separatist movement." He was absolutely right. He asked the Mirwaiz "if any of the Hurriyat leaders had died during the past more than 20 years"? He himself answered the question saying "not a single Hurriyat leader has died and that it was the Hurriyat leaders who were responsible for the death of more than 100 stone-throwers in the Valley." He was absolutely right. He told the clueless and dumbfounded Mirwaiz that "it is Pakistan that has pumped money into Kashmir and it is with the help of this Pakistani money that the Hurriyat leaders have promoted the cult of stone." The Mirwaiz had no answer whatever.
General Chowdhury made it loud and clear that "there is no place for secession and the people of India will never allow this. Kashmir is a part of India and it will continue to be so. The fate of Kashmir cannot be decided by the whims and fancies of some people like the Hurriyat and the design of Pakistan. Pakistan is trying to take the revenge of Bangladesh and we will never allow it to happen." What he told the Mirwaiz on his face evoked a tremendous applause from the members of the real civil society and they included sophisticated academics, leading commentators, journalists and lawyers and well-meaning persons. (To be continued) |
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