KL Report
SRINAGAR
Stating that the participation of people in elections has given impetus to India’s international campaign of branding voting for assembly in Kashmir as a referendum to its accession, United Jihad Council (UJC) Chief and Hizb ul Mujahedeen Supremo Syed Salah ud din Wednesday said, “The time has come when Hurriyat conference and other separatist power houses should unite and reach out to people to convince them for Poll Boycott.” And added, “The treatment meted to Afzal Guru and the ‘heroic’ funeral to Sarbhjeet Singh, who was recently killed in a fatal attack in Pakistani Jail should be an eye opener for Kashmiri mainstream politicians who have been turning a blind eye towards the ‘ double standards’ of New Delhi viz a viz Kashmir.”
Over the confusion in separatist ranks, UJC chief said that it was creating problems for people to take a que and urged separatist leaders to shun their difference and go to people with a clear mind set.
In a telephonic interview to a local news agency, KNS from Muzafferabad, Syed Salah ud din while giving a poll boycott call for the next year elections said that the boycott had now become inevitable as the participation of people in elections was severely hitting the cause of achieving freedom.
“Government of India, its judiciary and its media, all have successfully projected the participation of people in polls as a referendum for JK’s accession to India at international forums, which has definitely taken a toll”, Salah ud din told KNS, adding that the trend should be taken seriously and Separatist leaders in the state must rise to the occasion and start a campaign against it.
“Those who say, polls are non issue should know that India has been projecting it for its benefit, so we must reach out to people to aware them how their participation in polls has been denting the freedom struggle”, said Hizb Chief.
He ridiculed Senior Congress leader Mani Shanker Ayer’s recent statement in Valley and said, “India has been indulging in same kind of exploitation for last 65 years.”
“These are the people who observe shut down on your call. These are the people who lay down lives on your call. And these are the people who hit the streets for the freedom struggle, and they will respond to your boycott call, if you go to them with clean mind set up”, Salah ud din said while referring to separatist leaders.
The Hizb chief said that the Punchayat members were politicized by mainstream politicians which have exposed them to risk.
Salah ud din also expressed concern over the infamous drug scam and said, “India was deliberately resorting to certain kinds of tactics that could strengthen its occupation on Jammu and Kashmir.”
