Intimidating Pro freedom camp by the threats of jails and arrests cannot deter them from perusing the path of freedom and truth.
Srinagar: Stating that boycotting the polls is legitimate under the purview of legal and democratic set-up, Chairman Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Mohammad Yasin Malik Thursday said that the crackdown upon Kashmir’s pro-freedom leadership in actual vindicates that the puppets have accepted the defeat ahead of the fight.
In a statement issued to press, Malik stated that democracy is termed as the battle of ideas and ideologies .Also freedom of expression is the basic right of every individual of the modern world and that the same is also among the very foundations of every democratic country. “To vote or to boycott is the basic right of every person but to inflict torture of worst nature upon the ones who boycott the election fray and to restrict their movements is in itself the negation of the democratic norms that cannot be but termed as undemocratic and uncivilized.”
Malik stated further that throughout the world, the people are being given the chance to express their ideas and opinions before the masses in a free way but in Jammu Kashmir, India, which claims to be the biggest democracy of the world and also terms election held time to time in Jammu Kashmir as fair, free and full of participation, is actually acting in Hitler’s style, negating the people of Jammu Kashmir every basic right to choose what they want. This has exposed the hollowness of India’s democratic claims .He said that India that thoroughly claims to uphold the values of fair-play and democracy, in actual undermines the aspiration of the people and inflicts torture upon them. “As the elections were announced here, the crackdown upon the pro-freedom camp has unmasked its hollow claims and the puppet regime.
Yasin said The puppet regimes here claim that the election are conducted in a transparent way here but irony is that the Army and forces , election commission and even the candidates contesting the elections are their own. Therefore to expect fair-play and so called transparency via these elections is a mere mirage.
Malik stated that the pro-India parties here including NC, Congress, PDP, BJP, and CPI and other parties and independents engaged in these elections are being funded by India’s home ministry. Indian forces and institutions facilitate their campaign and even people’s participation in their public rallies is ensured by these. But on the other hand freedom camp is denied all its rights, they are being harassed, arrested, jailed, tortured and subjected to every kind of oppression by Indian state. The irony is that after caging down the whole freedom camp, Indian prime minister from Lal Qilla and other leaders and officers claim victory and propagate elections as people’s verdict. Yasin Malik said that this is no victory but a clear defeat of India and its puppets in Jammu Kashmir. If India and its Kashmiri stooges believe in real democracy they should instead of arresting and harassing freedom camp provide them a even playing field and let the people of Jammu Kashmir decide what they want.
Yasin Malik said that ex-Indian election commissioner Mr. Lingdo once said that election boycott is peoples right .Even the new Indian law NOTA, the verdict of Indian supreme court on this and its various Interpretations clearly provide people an option to vote or boycott elections, but India trampling its own laws and norms has and is negating the people of Kashmir this right.
Yasin Malik said that jail is second home for freedom camp and people in this camp have spent years in jails. Therefore intimidating them by the threats of jails and arrests cannot deter them from perusing the path of freedom and truth. He said that anybody who is dreaming to frighten the freedom lovers is living in a fool’s paradise as this only show and indicates that Indian state and its puppets have conceded defeat even before the match.
Meanwhile on the directions of Chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik a delegation comprising of Mir Siraj Ud Din, Prof Javed, Nisar Jeelani,Mushtaq Ahmad Wani and Zahoor Ahmad today visited Shahgund Bandipora and met with the bereaved family of martyr Farhat Ahmad Dar. The delegation met with the family and expressed solidarity with them. The delegation also visited Hajin and expressed solidarity with the people of the area who are being constantly tortured and harassed by the forces. JKLF has also expressed its heartfelt condolences on the sad demise of its well-wisher Gulshan Akhtar w/o Mohammad Ashraf khan of Gulshan Nagar Nogam. JKLF leaders advocate Bashir Ahmad Bhat, Mohammad Sideeq Shah participated in her funeral and expressed condolences to her family including JKLF leader Mushtaq Ajmal for whom she was like a kind sister.