Srinagar, Nov 26, KONS: Strongly condemning the attack on its chairman, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, and senior leader, Bilal Ghani Lone, in Chandigarh yesterday, the Hurriyat (M) on Friday said that the government would solely responsible for the consequences if it failed to curb such communal fanatics.
“Though the government clamped curfew in the old city and sealed off the Jamai Masjid to prevent a reaction to the attack, congregations elsewhere in the valley strongly condemned the cowardly assault,” the Hurriyat (M) said.
“Speakers at these congregations held the government directly responsible for the murderous attack, and warned the centre of dire consequences if it did not rein in such communal fanatics,” it said.
The chairman of the Democratic Forum, Bhushan Bazaaz, also condemned the attack on the Mirwaiz, saying that such acts were intolerable.
He said that the attack was carried out under a plan to spark off communal strife in the valley.
“But such acts cannot suppress the legitimate struggle of the people,” he said, appealing for maintaining communal harmony at all costs.
Akalis Flay Assault on Mirwaiz
All India Shiromani Akali Dal (J&K) today condemned the attack on Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Bilal Gani Lone at Chandigarh.
”It is the handiwork of those forces who want to create wedge between the sections of Kashmiri society and to communalize the issue of Kashmir” Dal said in a statement.
“It is our utmost duty to defeat the nefarious designs those who want to fragment the age old tradition of Kashmiriyat in the guise of nationalism and democracy”.
”They pretend to be Indians but are in fact violating the Indian ethos”, it said.