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| 'Hurriyat should assure protection to mobile communication' | | Aap Kaun? Mein Renzu Shah! | | Abdul Majid
Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 30: What has been a popular maxim of satire - "Aap Kaun? Mein Khawm Khwah!" -has found a latest avatar in former bureaucrat-turned-politician Khawaja Renzu. In the latest, Renzu has poked his nose in the mobile communication trouble in Kashmir by seeking separatist intervention.
Farooq Ahmed Renzu, who over the years has been projecting himself as Khawaja Farooq Renzu Shah, has suddenly come to life today by issuing statements in Srinagar dailies. For the smooth functioning of mobiles in Kashmir where the communication network has been targeted by militants in the recent past, he has made a self-contradicting appeal to Hurriyat Conference.
"If Hurriyat really wants to protect the rights of people it should give assurance to cell phone tower landlords that they won't be targeted," Renzu said in the statement.
Though neither an authority nor holding any chair of power, Renzu has "appealed the people, who have rented out their land to cellular companies, not to get panicky and shutdown their mobile towers."
"There is an urgent need to protect mobile towers and mobiles. It seems some elements want to push us back into '90s where every second person used to threaten other in the name of Tehreek and Tanzeem," Renzu who in the past was allegedly close to separatists, said.
But after publishing of his latest statement in newspapers, Renzu has again gone for a twist in his story. On Facebook, he today contradicted his newspaper appeal to Hurriyat. "Separatist will become more powerful when mobile system is dead as mouth to mouth communication they have already taken over," Renzu posted.
But this was not the end. Till noon, he rapidly wrote some half a dozen posts pertaining to mobile trouble. "Mobile closure fall out will be on Yatra communications as well," he wrote in another post to be followed by, "Mobile closure may affect entire Tourism sector in Kashmir."
Amid these confusing and self-contradicting statements, he also posted "Today in Kashmir more than 1000 mobile towers have been made defunct if people will not protect remaining 2000 functional towers all is END."
For the past few years, post retirement, from joining Congress to subsequently floating his own political party to rubbing shoulders with Bollywood crews, Renzu has been trying anything and everything to be in news.
Having found a topic to be in news, Renzu who also runs NGO Kashmir Society, allegedly plans to "hold road shows to highlight mobile communication trouble."
A spate of attacks against telecom employees and those who have rented out space for installation of mobile towers in their fields has thrown the communication system in north Kashmir's Baramulla into disarray.
The reason being that the telecom employees have stopped maintaining the mobile towers and those having franchise of telecom companies have started distancing themselves. Two people were killed in the last six days as militants carried out four attacks since Saturday last mainly targeting those associated with telecom sector.
Despite repeated attempts Renzu could not be contacted for comments. |
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