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Election in Kashmir a ‘military operation’, says Geelani’s Hurriyat
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Thursday, 20 March 2014
8:12 pm
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Srinagar: While terming the
government’s plan of crackdown on pro-freedom camp with respect to the upcoming
election drama as ‘ridicules’, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC)
headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani, said ‘this action proves our stand cent
present right that the election in Jammu and Kashmir are merely a ‘military
operation rather than a democratic process’.
In a statement issued here, while challenging the
government, the Hurriyat said: “If Syed Ali Geelani and other pro-freedom
leaders are allowed to reach people and let them to run an election boycott
campaign, the majority of people will boycott this election drama and will stay
away from this military operation.”
The ailing leader’s forum termed proposed plan of
government to restrict the movement of 367 persons and issuance of non-bailable
warrant against 957 persons as ‘an act of state terrorism and lawlessness by
the state administration’. “These persons doesn’t hold any weapon and neither
are they going to forcibly stop the people from casting votes nor are they any
threat to the law and order, but they only want to present their view before
the people and inform them that how India use their vote which is begged for
electricity and water, as a tool against our sacred movement and how India justifies
its forced occupation and how this vote harms the Kashmir cause,” the amalgam
said.
While quoting a ruling of Supreme Court, the Hurriyat
said that the Indian Supreme Court have passed a ruling, which states that ‘the
election boycott or the campaign for election boycott is a democratic and basic
right of every citizen’. “According to this ruling, the election boycott
campaign of pro-freedom leaders is in no way any offence nor breaks it any law,
so there is no justification with the government to detain or restrict the
movement of pro-freedom leaders for election boycott, but it proves the fact
that the elections held is Jammu and Kashmir are neither any democratic process
nor are they meant to know the choice of the people,” it said, adding: “Elections
in Jammu and Kashmir are actually a joint operation of Indian Home Ministry,
Army and secret agencies by which sometimes National Conference, sometimes PDP
and sometimes state-Congress are made successful and the candidates are
selected for the posts.”
The Hurriyat said: “these operations has made the entry
of Kuka Parray like persons into the state assembly and with the help of this
operation, Ghulam Hassan Mir like lone members of their party is offered the
Ministerial berths in every government.”
“Hurriyat Conference has given a free advice to the
Indian government that instead of detaining hundreds of persons in jails, they
should itself announce and select some favourite persons and then declare them
successful, this will not only save the millions of dollars spent on this
election drama but this will also save them from the embarrassment which they
are facing due to this military operation in the name of elections in Kashmir
which nullifies their claim of big democracy,” the statement reads.
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