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PDP held protest rally Sets Farooq Abdullah’s effigy on fire
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Tuesday, 4 March 2014
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Srinagar: The opposition Peoples Democratic Party held a protest rally in
Srinagar on Tuesday against
Farooq Abdullah remarks that “Kashmiris are maha chor.”
The PDP
activists, led by their leader Khursheed Alam, marched through Lal Chowk in
Srinagar, demanding apology from Farooq. The PDP activists set the effigy of
Farooq Abdullah on fire near Regal Chowk Srinagar while police stopped them
from moving towards City Centre Lal Chowk.
According to CNS,
scores of People’s Democratic Party activists led by Khursheed Alam took out a
march against Farooq Abdullah’s remarks that Kashmir’s are ‘mahachor’. The
party activists raised slogans like, ‘shame to Farooq, shame to NC’, were
stopped by police near Regal Chowk shortly after they set the effigy of Farooq
Abdullah on fire.
Talking to
reporters, PDP leader Muhammad Khursheed Alam said that NC is corrupt to
the core. “How can the National Conference be so shameless? They are
patronizing corruption in the State and they are calling Kashmiris thieves. It
is outright shamelessness,” he said that it is irony that Farooq Abdullah is
insulting those people who voted him and his party to power.
Khursheed Alam
said the National Conference first “labeled the Kashmir youth as drug addicts
and stone pelters” and now their leader has “ridiculed” Kashmiris by calling
them thieves. He said Abdullah’s statement is an insult to Kashmiris and he
should apologize for his remarks.
Another PDP
leader Yasir Reshi said, “Who is the big thief? You should turn the pages of
history and you will find how NC first looted Kashmiris in the name of a
movement and now it continues to pile up the sufferings of people,” he said.
Besides Alam and
Reshi other leaders who were part of the march included Haji Parvez and Abdul
Hamid Kosheen.
Farooq Abdullah,
who is also a Union Minister, had made the reported remark over alleged
pilferage of electricity by people in Kashmir who, he said, by-passed electric
meters to avoid payments to the fund-starved State electricity department.
“Kashmiri Chor
Nahi, Maha Chor Hai (Kashmiris are not just thieves, they are the biggest
thieves),” Abdullah had reportedly said at a function in New Delhi while releasing
the 'citizens report on state of renewable energy.” (CNS)
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