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| No taker for Hurriyat leaders in Kashmir | | Secessionist Movement | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, June 13: People of Kashmir, especially Srinagar, the hub of all activities, deserve kudos. Why? because they yesterday showed the Hurriyat leaders their rightful place by boycotting them and demonstrating their urge for peace in the Valley. What happened yesterday in the ever busy and over-crowded heart of Srinagar city was not something ordinary; it was something extraordinary; something that must have rattled the vested interests, who had been roaming about as "freedom fighters" in Kashmir and elsewhere in the country since years. It is doubtful if the authorities in New Delhi have taken any cognizance of the yesterday's development in Srinagar. New Delhi is New Delhi and it conducts itself in a strange manner.
What happened yesterday in Srinagar? Some so-called top-ranking leaders of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference - Mirwaiz (APHC-M), including Shabir Ahmad Shah, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Javid Ahmad Mir, Yasmeena Raja and Zaffar Akbar, organized a march from Pratap Park (Residency Road) to United Nations Military Observers' Group (UNMOG), Sonawar, to present a memorandum demanding "an impartial probe into the killings" during the 2010 police-public clashes. The alert police foiled their march and arrested them. The Hurriyat leaders offered no resistance. In fact, they were not in a position to offer any resistance. For, there was no popular support for this ill-motivated march. They only reiterated that they would continue to fight for their right to self-determination, something is not going to happen for centuries together.
It needs to be underlined that these out-on-the-limb and self-styled freedom fighters were holding banners and placards in their hands in which photos of some stone-throwers and others killed in the 2010 unrest were prominently displayed and shouting slogans against the state government saying it had failed to dispense "justice to the families whose near and dear ones were killed allegedly by police and CRPF personnel", but without evoking any response from the people. The people held aloof from them. Nor did they join the march to the UNMOG, Sonawar. The number of those who were with these self-styled freedom fighters was not even two dozen. That even the members of the affected families held themselves aloof from the likes of Shabir Ahmad Shah, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Javid Ahmad Mir, Yasmeena Raja and Zaffar Akbar was something very significant -- significant in the sense that these Hurriyat leaders had organized the march ostensibly for seeking "justice" for the "affected" families. They wanted to fool the people, but the people defeated their game-plan by discarding them.
Remember, the Summer 2010 police-crowd clashes in Kashmir had left more than 100 persons, including many stone-pelters dead and scores of others, including several CRPF and police personnel, injured, some of them fatally. The summer 2010 witnessed the rise of stone pelters and there were forces in Kashmir and across the border and Line of Control which had engineered attacks on the CRPF and police personnel and on the CRPF bunkers. Their objective was to create in Kashmir a situation similar to the one the country witnessed in Kashmir in January 1990 so that Kashmir could be annexed to Pakistan. Had the CRPF, Army and the Police not swung into action, things in Kashmir would have taken an extremely dangerous turn. Credit goes to the security forces which brought the situation under control after making supreme sacrifices.
It is time for New Delhi to call the Hurriyat leaders' bluff and conduct itself in a fashion that makes its presence felt across the state and sends signal across the border that it means business and that it would no longer tolerate anything non-sense. It is good that it has refused to quit the strategically crucial Siachen Glacier, but this is just not enough. It has to establish its authority in the Kashmir valley in the real sense of the term; it has to tell that there is no place for the Kashmiri Muslim identity politics in the Indian scheme of things and that the people of Kashmir have to live like all other Indians failing which stringent action would be taken against those found involved in fissiparous and communal activities. |
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