SRINAGAR: Hailing people for largely boycotting the election, Chairman of s Hurriyat Conference G, Syed Ali Geelani Thursday said the government was exaggerating the turnout, which according to Geelani was less than three percent. ” We reject the government figures about voting. The government is exaggerating the percentage. The actual voter turnout is not more than 2 or 3 percent and even this much is because of the official repression, harassment and fear created by Indian forces. In the absence of military might of the government there would be zero voting” Geelani said in a statement issued on Thursday.
He reiterated his appeal to people about boycotting the forthcoming round of polling on on April 30 and May 7 in Srinagar and Baramulla respectively.
He said that the young blood of Kashmir is filled with passion, enthusiasm and resistance which indicates that India have few days left in Kashmir and now they cant continue their oppression and forced occupation for long.
The octogenarian leader said that the government used every possible way to make this election ama a success. The whole pro-freedom leadership was imprisoned at their homes and different police stations, huneds of youth were detained while as people were lured by providing employment and other promises and cash were also distributed among the people. The army and police are using their traditional tools of oppression, fear and harassment to force the people to vote. They (Army and police) have increased their patrolling in the villages and the far-flung areas and they have also launched an unstoppable arrest spree and raids to harass the common people, Geelani said.
Geelani said that despite the curbs hurdles and the use of force, the people of Kashmir have out rightly rejected the pro-Indian politicians and elections and they should not only be hailed for this but they have sent a clear message across the world as well as Indian that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir have completely changed and the people cant be deceived or hoodwinked anymore.
He said that our educated generation has become politically enough mature and sensitive and they have got the differences between the right and the wrong. A pro-freedom leader
While condemning the attacks on the media persons, Geelani said that the government is frustrated by the complete election boycott of the people and government forces are working out this frustration on the journalists who are working in an independent way to show the world the real picture of the election drama in Jammu and Kashmir. He expressed sympathy and solidarity with the injured journalists and said that the attacks on journalists are actually the attacks on the freedom of press and the democracy, which should be condemned at all forms.
Geelani thanked the people especially the youth from the core of his heart and said that I am very pleased with their courage, spirit, bravery and sentiment of freedom and my belief has become firmer that now Indian cant hold Kashmir under its forced occupation for long. There military might, rigidness and arrogance of power will met a humiliating defeat in the hands of Kashmiri people. The pro-freedom leader expressed his hope that the people of central and north Kashmir will also completely boycott the upcoming election ama on 30 April and 7 May and will held protest demonstrations after the Magrib prayers on 29 April and 6 may respectively.
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