Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir People’s league Chairman, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza today condemned the continuous harassment to its party activists in Kulgam district of South Kashmir and said that police is trying to implicate party activists in baseless cases.
Waza in a statement denounced harassing of party activists in Kulgam and Yaripora area and said that police action is intolerable and unacceptable.
According to a statement issued to KNS, accompanied by party leaders and activists including Nazir Ahmad Khan, District president Kulgam, Reyaz Ahmad, Ahmadullah and Zahid Zahoor, Waza visited several workers today in Kulgam district. On the occasion he said that puppet authorities and ruling mainstream parties have converted the whole state into a police state and armed forces have lashed a reign of terror just to curb the ongoing peaceful freedom movement in the state.
He said that police besides harassing the party activists, was demanding money from them and if they failed to pay they are being threatened to implicate in false cases. Waza appealed international community to take a strong of the police atrocities in Kashmir.
He said that India must shun the dual standards and must stop the armed forces atrocities in the valley. Waza said that hundreds of youths and pro-freedom leaders continue to remain in police detention, arrested before election drama, while as thousands continue to lash in inside and outside state jails.
Waza said boycotting sham polls is the right of oppressed Kashmir people but now India seems to have gone frustrated and is now using its military might to crush the freedom sentiment among the people of state by the policy of oppression and suppression. However, he said that neither People’s league has succumbed before Indian oppression nor it will.
He urged upon workers to continue working for ongoing freedom movement and impressed upon them to make the 21st May Eid Gah Chalo Program a success. (KNS)