Srinagar, Oct 15: “Harassment of Kashmiri students amounts to persecution and India by using these authoritarian orders is proving itself as a banana republic,” said Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik on Monday.
He said throwing students out of the educational institution and thus depriving them from seeking education is worst dictatorship and travesty of democracy.
Malik is presently lodged in Kothi Bagh police station along with JKLF leaders Noor Muhammad Kalwal, Showkat Ahmad Bakhshi and Hurriyat leaders Javed Ahmad Mir and Nirsar Hussain Rather.
Police today arrested another JKLF activist Mushtaq Ahmad Wani from Koreg, Ganderbal, a JKLF statement said.
In a statement issued to KPS, JKLF chairman said, “Suspension and removal of four students at Aligarh Muslim University for allegedly offering funeral prayers in absentia for their former colleague, is a shameful act which amounts to persecution of Kashmiris in the name of so-called Indian national interest.”
Recalling a page from Indian independence movement, Malik said that in 1941, the great freedom fighter of India Subash Chander Bose escaped from police custody and soon after his escape a rumor about his death spread all over India.
Moulana Abul Kalam Azad in his famous book “India wins freedom” has written that soon after Subash Chander Bose escaped from police custody and joined armed struggle, a rumor about his passing away spread all over India, Malik recalled adding that every Indian was feeling pain and agony on it and Ghandi ji who had serious ideological differences with Bose and stood for a complete non-violent resistance wrote a condolence letter to the mother of Subash Chander Bose in which he termed Bose as a great patriot who sacrificed his life for Indian independence.
“Few days later, Moulana Azad who was then president of Indian National Congress was summoned by British Viceroy who was furious about the letter and termed Ghandi Ji as a hypocrite who was propagating Ahimsa but glamorizing armed rebellion in his view. Moulana Azad further writes in the book that when he informed Ghandi Ji about Viceroy’s assertions and anger Ghandi Ji uttered no word from his mouth but his facial expressions and eyes illustrated the affection he had for Subash Chander Bose.”
JKLF chief said that today Ghandi Ji’s India is throwing Kashmiri scholars and students out of educational institutions and booking them for sedition for merely praying for a fellow student who chose to rebel against tyranny.
“This is actually travesty of democracy which is being done in the name of so-called national interest by India,” he said adding that Indian rulers, their authorities, media, vice chancellors, police, agencies and forces who have all turned into viceroys of new age should introspect and visit this page of Indian history of freedom movement too so that they can collect some humility and envisage the value of freedom fighters.
“Kashmiris stand behind their new generation and students and reject these acts of persecution by Indian state and we appeal to the international community to intervene and ask Indian state to refrain from this bullying,” Malik said.
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