Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that the united resistance leadership is working on a transition from short-term agitation to a long-term protest, a media report said today.
In an interview with The Economic Times, the Mirwaiz has talked about the New Delhi’s Kashmir policy, ongoing protests and US President-elect Donald Trump.
Asked to analyse five months of protests in Kashmir, Mirwaiz said that Kashmiris couldn’t always be in a sprint mode.
“Every agitation or movement has a lifespan. Some people here are wrongly creating an impression that we have not achieved anything during these months. We cannot always be in the sprint mode. We have to come to march mode,” he said while replying to a question.
Underlining that a culture of resistance needed to be created, he said: “We are working on a transition from short-term agitation to a long-term protest. We have to make a shift from hartal to sustainable means of resistance. We have to create culture of resistance.”
Mirwaiz said that the resistance and daily life need to be carried out simultaneously without one paralyzing the other. “Our response is that we have to resist at minimum cost,” he said.
