SRINAGAR: While terming the “hue and cry” allover India over the organizing of a peaceful event on Afzal Guru and Maqbool Butt by the students in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi as unnecessary and beyond the understanding of anyone, Hurriyat (G) said that as India is claiming to be a largest democracy in the world, so this democracy should not only allow its people to raise their voices for their birth rights but they should also try to know and address the root cause of the grievances of the Kashmiri students.
The spokesman of the amalgam in a statement issued to GNS cautioned the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) authorities against taking any action against organisers of a peaceful event on Afzal Guru.
“If the university authorities take any action against the Kashmiri students, this will not only negate the democratic claims of this country but it will also have very strong reaction in Jammu & Kashmir and the Indian government will be responsible for all this, he said.
A Hurriyat spokesman Ayaz Akbar said that it is not the first time that the Kashmiri students have organized such an event in any educational institution of India. but wherever they are studying, they raise their peaceful voices against the oppression which their nation is facing since a long time.
This is not only a natural reaction of the situations in Kashmir but it is also a constitutional, legal and democratic right of the students to show their concerns, he said.
The students of the JNU, he said, have neither committed any act of violence in the university nor did they indulge in any other immoral activity.
They have just raised slogans against the secret hanging of Mohammad Afzal Guru and in favour of the freedom for Kashmir during the peaceful protest demonstration and it hadnt harmed anybody, said Akbar.
The hue and cry, which the university authorities, VHP, RSS and the Indian Media Mafia have raised against this small event is totally unfair, unjustified and beyond the understanding of anybody.
He said the Indian news channels are debating and presenting the simple and normal event in the JNU as if the students dropped a bomb or planted a landmine in the campus.
The Indian media mafia by projecting the incident in a wrong way is actually creating an unsafe atmosphere for the Kashmiri students and is trying to gather a public consensus against them, he alleged.
Hurriyat Conference cautioned that if any untoward happened with the Kashmiri students in New Delhi, that will have very serious consequences and all its responsibility will be on the Indian government.
Hurriyat said that the Kashmiri nation is proud of their students who had held peaceful protest demonstration and they stand with them in whatever the situations. (GNS)
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