Srinagar
Despite restrictions, hundreds on Monday joined the march led by Independent lawmaker and MLA Langate Er Rasheed from Magharmal Bagh and preceded towards civil Secretariat. Protesters while chanting slogans seek an end to bloodshed by the forces and unconditional ceasefire between militants and the government forces.
The spokesman said a heavy contingent of police stopped the march ahead of civil secretariat’s main gate and arrested around one hundred protesters including Er Rasheed, Dr Bari Nayak, Prince Parvez, Zeeshan Pandith, Ghulam Nabi Mir Sheeban Ashie and lodged them in Police station Rajbagh and Karan Nagar.
He said that before his arrest Rasheed while talking to media said that New Delhi has lost the moral right to call Kashmiris as its own people, as the way Kashmiris are being killed by men in uniform everywhere, has exposed New Delhi’s tall claims.
The spokesman quotes Er Rasheed saying “While on one hand, New Delhi claims Jammu and Kashmir to be its crown but has been bulldozing Kashmiris every day one way or the other. New Delhi needs to be reminded that Kashmiris are not seeking anything which is unrealistic but are just asking to fulfil its long list of promises made from time to time with the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Unless New Delhi doesn’t fulfil its promises, it has to be held responsible for every killing irrespective of the fact who kills whom, as in absence of Kashmir dispute the whole bloodshed of death and destruction would never have been taking place”.
While demanding immediate revocation of SRO 202, Rasheed lashed out at government for making SSA Teachers and clerical staff worse than baggers and said that while Mantries and Babu’s have been enjoying without any accountability, common masses find governance completely missing and in fact men in uniform are the only available face of governance, but unfortunately for the wrong reasons . Rasheed appealed Mehbooba Mufti to either know and use her worth and stop misleading New Delhi or must resign from the government.
