SRINAGAR: Senior leader of Jammu Kashmir liberation front (JKLF) advocate Bashir Ahmad Butt along with Mohammad Azam Zargar and others were arrested today when they were leading a candle march at Lal Chowk today evening.
According to a statement, the candle march was organized in connection with the election boycott campaign and starting from Maisuma its destination was Rajouri Kadal in Shehr-I-Khaas.
Hundreds of JKLF leaders and activists holding torches in their hands raised slogans in favor of freedom, martyrs, struggle and leaders and marched towards the destination.
This procession after passing through Madina Chowk, Basant Bagh and other areas reached Nai Sadak Chowk where it was stopped by a large contingent of police and forces.
On the occasion participants especially the youth provided stiff resistance and slogans of boycott boycott election boycott filled the atmosphere. Police used excessive force and disrupted the procession and arrested JKLF leader advocate Bashir Ahmad Butt along with Mohammad Azeem Zargar and some others on the occasion police also arrested some passerby youth namely Mohammad Aaqib also
Before the rally Butt while talking to media person and participants of the rally termed Indian elections as a stage managed drama and said that India has been repeating this drama to hoodwink international opinion .butt sahib while asking the people to keep away from Indian elections said that we Kashmiris will have to keep in mind the ill effects and bad consequences of participating in Indian elections and that that boycotting these elections is our moral and political right as well as duty because these elections are meant to weaken our freedom struggle and voice. Bhat sahib said that participating in these elections cannot be termed but as betrayal as this is against the national interests of Kashmiris.
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