Expressing serious concern over recent developments like police escort to RSS processions and development of IIM in Jammu, the Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA) Chairman Haji Muhammad Yasin Khan today said the ruling PDP-BJP alliance was pushing the state to polarization.
Khan, who also heads the Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation (KTMF) said, at a time “Muharram mourners were beaten by police and mourning processions were not allowed on the traditional routes in Kashmir, the government deployed the same police to provide protection to the RSS bhakts who carried out provocative processions in Jammu region only to frighten the Muslim community in Jammu and Chenab Valley regions.”
“This is nothing but the agenda of divide and to polarize the state towards the trifurcation as is being apprehended since the day this alliance came to power,” Khan said.
He said as if this all was not enough, New Delhi has sanctioned development of IIM in Jammu, where as Kashmir has been ignored again.
“Another controversy which has just erupted is over plan to enforce uniform civil code in India. What is this all aiming at? While Muslims elsewhere are being pushed to wall, the majority community of Jammu and Kashmir is being forced to fight decisive battle on multiple fronts as our identify and existence both have come at stake,” Khan said.
Asserting that no force would be allowed to divide the state, Khan said: “Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh have been one state and will continue to be so till our last breath.”
He appealed to the Indian civil society to come forward and support the cause of people of Jammu and Kashmir who are being “unduly suppressed on every front only to please the agenda of Hindutva.”
“The irony is that power hungry PDP leaders from Kashmir are more loyal than the king in executing the Hindutva agenda,” Khan said.
Meanwhile, mandatory Friday congregational prayers were once again banned in historic Jamia Masjid Srinagar. It was fourteenth consecutive week that the PDP-BJP coalition government did not allow faithful to offer the Friday prayers in Jamia Masjid in congregation.
Government has imposed restrictions in several police stations in Srinagar and huge deployment of police and CRPF men has been made across the summer capital and other parts of Valley in view of resistance leadership called march to Raj Bhawan.
“All the roads leading to Lal Chowk – residency Road side – have blocked with razor wires spread across the roads while police vans have been placed at major checkpoints in Srinagar,” eye witnesses said.
Since morning forces are not allowing anyone go towards historic Clock Tower (Ghanta Ghar).
In its latest calendar issued on, the pro-freedom leaders have asked people to march towards Raj Bhawan to handover a letter, asking him to “vacate” Jammu & Kashmir ,further, people have been asked to offer mandatory Friday congregational prayers on Foreshore road. However, severe restrictions have been imposed to thwart any such march.
In Nowhatta, where the historic Jamia Masjid is located, residents said that they are not being allowed to move out of their homes.
It was on July 08 – when popular militant commander, Burhan Wani, was killed by forces in Bemdoora area of South Kashmir’s Islamabad district – that the mandatory congregational Friday prayers were held in Jamia Masjid last time. Since then, police and CRPF men seal all entries to Jamia Masjid on Friday.
