If tunnels and roads would have been a substitute to freedom and dignity, then British should have never left India as it had developed Indian infrastructure enormously.
Those who ‘sided with British’ can never understand the ethos of freedom struggle
Srinagar: Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Muhammad Yasin Malik on Sunday said roads and tunnels cannot make a nation change its track.
“If tunnels and roads would have been a substitute to freedom and dignity, then British should have never left India as it had developed Indian infrastructure enormously. People who sided with British during Indian freedom struggle can never understand the ethos of freedom struggle and psyche of freedom lovers,” Malik, according to party statement, said reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertions at Udhampur today.
“The statement of Indian Prime Minister that ‘Kashmiris should choose between terrorism and tourism and that youth striving for freedom are misguided’ is absurd. British ruled India for more than 200 years and during that period they developed Indian infrastructure enormously. It was British who developed Indian railway system and irrigation canals that are until now benefitting whole subcontinent and if the standards of Modi Ji were to be applied then British should never have left Indian neither should have Gandhi, Nehru, Subash Chander Bose, Baghat Singh and Moulana Azad strived for the freedom of India,” Malik said.
“Our reply to Modi Ji is the same that was given by Gandhi ji to a British envoy who had posed same type of question to him that how can poor Indian survive independently, Gandhi had replied that he would prefer a non-competent poor independent rule over a competent and wealthy forcibly controlled nation,” he said.
“Modi Ji should understand that roads and tunnels cannot make a nation change its track neither can intimidations and oppressions deter a nation that has resolved to end forcible control from perusing its righteous path. Kashmiri youth are most learned and competent enough to compete with the rest of the world but Indian oppression unleashed against them has deprived them a chance to excel,” Malik added.