Srinagar: The Hurriyat Conference headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani has threatened government agitation ‘if raids, arrests and autocracies aren’t stopped till Tuesday’.
In a statement issues to GNS, the octogenarian leader said: “the complete election boycott of the people of Kashmir have frustrated the rulers from New Delhi to the Srinagar and they are now subjecting the entire population to the political ‘vengeance’ by unlashing the reign of terror and atrocities upon the common people.”
While threatening with agitation, Geelani said: “if the process of raids, arrests and autocracies are not stopped till 13th May, we will come up with a disciplined programme in public against these excesses and atrocities after 13th May.”
Geelani said that no strike or shutdown will be observed anywhere in Jammu and Kashmir till 13 May and appealed the people especially youths to ‘show discipline and unity at this crucial juncture and follow the programme with letter and spirit’.
“The arrest spree, raids and barbarism launched by the state administration have created panic among the general masses and they are spending sleepless nights. After the successful election boycott in Jammu and Kashmir, the authorities in New Delhi and their local employees have made plans to avenge the boycott practice of people by using autocratic and violent ways and to implement these plans, the police and Indian army have been given full authority to prosecute the common people particularly the younger generation,” the senior resistance leader said.
He said that the youth and students are ‘severely tortured, abused, harassed and insulted in the police stations and jails and they are pushed to the wall’. “Under the so-called ‘national interest’, India with its secret agencies is busy in suppressing the peaceful political voice of Jammu and Kashmir by using state power, violence, and force and is committing atrocities,” he said, adding: “From minors to elders, everybody is arrested and detained in police stations and then they are tortured and abused by the civilized police officers and are pressurized to stay away from the freedom movement.”
The Hurriyat chairman strongly condemned these acts of police and demanded the immediate release of the detained people, youth and students.