SRINAGAR: Accusing New Delhi of trying to convert Kashmir into another Palestine, newly floated Save Kousar Nag Front Saturday said that if proposed yatra to the mountain lake is not banned then the people of Kashmir would be left with only alternative to come on roads and resist the government move to make different yatras a round the year affair in Kashmir.
Scores of people including civil society members and lawyers staged a protest in Press Enclave Srinagar on Saturday alleging that move to start Kousar Nag yatra from 29th of this month is an attempt to disturb fragile ecological balance of Kashmir.
We dont have animosity with the people belonging to other religion but we are fighting for the safeguarding of our resources and rights. First it was Amarnath yatra, then Machil yatra and now Kousar Nag yatra and in coming days we will see other yatras, said activist Qazi Irfan.
They said that stream flowing since centuries is not a religious place and that no historical account proves that Yatra must be executed at the lake. It is crystal clear that the government by organizing fake religious yatras was trying to change the Muslim character of the Kashmir. The duration of Amarnath yatra was extended just to give communal colour to that yatra in which only few odd outsiders used to participate, another civil society members said.
Terming it a conspiracy against the tourism of Kashmir valley, the locals stated that there are thousands of river streams in valley and when people will be given free hand to disturb the environs, the situation ahead would be dreadful. They stated further that they will, in the near future, start a massive mass agitation if government did not stop the proposed yatra.
Some of the participants in the protest were Khuram Parvez, Parvez Imroz, Advocate Babar Jan Qadri and others. (CNS)
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