Kashmir people fed up from routine bandh calls by separatists @ www.punjabnewsline.com
Ajmer Alam Wani
Monday, 19 July 2010
JAMMU: The routine protest programmes imposed by the separatists under the banner of Syed Ali Shah Gilani section of the Hurriyat Conference has irked majority of the people in Kashmir as the normal life across the Kashmir Valley has come to standstill following these programmes, which are enforced by the supporters of Hurriyat headed by Gilani.
These protest programmes of Hurriyat have brought many families particularly those who buy their bread and butter with their day's earning, on the verge of starvation. The recent 9 days long protest programme announced by the Hurriyat (G) has not only made the locals upset but internally there is great resentment brewing among the local people which could any time burst out against the separatists.
The common Kashmiri is of the view that after more than three weeks of curfews and shutdowns, life was returning to normalcy in the Kashmir valley but the protest programme, called in connection with the Hurriyat Conference's 'Quit Kashmir Campaign' on Friday has again forced the Valley and its common people remain indoor doing no job. The common Kashmiri people are displeased with the resent shutdown call, as it would again disrupt everyday life, their daily working, studies of school going children and those preparing for competitive examinations. Majority of the people who used to earn their two ends meal by working throughout the day are in real terms upset, even government offices functioning has disrupted and the people are not getting their works done. Though the Hurriyat Conference claims that the shutdown is being observed as a mark of protest against the 'atrocities being committed on Kashmiris by the troops', but forcing away and restraining the laborers from their work which helps them to earn two ends meal is not less than an imposed atrocity which is being enforced through such strike programmes.
The selfish attitude of the separatists has finally given room to the locals criticizing them for not thinking of the problems faced by the common man, as the unrest and shutdowns affect all type of workers who work in government or the private sector. Such shutdown from the past 20 days have affected badly those people who buy their bread and butter with their day's earning, now, they won't be having anything in their hands.
Interestingly Syed Ali Shah Geelani has called for a Valley-wide shutdown on Sunday to protest the alleged Human Rights (HR) violations by the security forces in Kashmir which is good, as every one should protest the HR violations committed anywhere across the globe but if the bread and butter of small children of labourers is being snatched due to such programmes, who will protest these Living Rights (LR) violations? Who will protest against those whose programmes are restricting school children form getting education? The attitude of the separatists which is against the interests of common Kashmiri and snatching bread and butter from them, has left no doubts on the role of these separatists who for their petty goals and well conspired agenda have never thought about the common man of Kashmir. What they (Separatists) can do is only using these innocent people as shields.
Now the people of Kashmir should realize that every one in Valley who has succeeded in making a place in media has been playing with their sentiments by making provocative speeches. Now these Kashmiri people have to think and not to get played in the hands of few selected people by using their own brain and stood up against those who are playing with the generations to come.
