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| Geelani put under house arrest, anti-India conclave banned | | Relentless media campaign works | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 13: A good news. The relentless media campaign against the Syed Ali Shah Geelani's anti-India conclave, which was to take place on Sunday, has produced the desired result. The PDP-BJP coalition government today banned the conclave and Geelani and cohorts were put under house arrest. Sources in the government said that those invited for the anti-India event would not be allowed to reach the venue of the conclave (read Syed Ali Shah Geelani's residence) and they would be arrested the moment they landed at Srinagar. Spokesperson of the PDP, uncouth and blunt Waheed-ur-Rehman today confirmed that the government "has appreciated the sentiment of the country's mainland and decided to block the conclave". Hitherto, he had defended the decision of Geelani, saying democracy was a battle of ideas and the government would not mind if Geelani went ahead with his anti-India activity. "We didn't want to injure the sentiment of the country's mainland. The conclave could have caused provocation and created a serious law and order problem. That's the reason the scheduled conclave was banned," he told.
It bears recalling that it was on June 8 that Geelani decided to hold anti-India seminar at Srinagar. He had other seditionists to deliver their speeches in the seminar titled "How to Resist the Indian State Fascism". "It will be the important seminar of its kind called by the Hurriyat Conference in which the prominent scholars, intellectuals, writers and pro-freedom leaders of the Kashmir Valley would also participate", said a Hurriyat spokesman. He had also issued a handout which, inter-alia, said: "Terming the communal and fascist agendas of the new Indian government as deadly, Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Geelani cautioned that if this nuisance is not collectively countered, besides Kashmiris, the existence and the identity of all the minorities of India will be in acute danger and their future will be very bleak. He said that the communal forces of India want to saffronize this entire region and want to implement their fanatic Hindutva policies here. And for this purpose they are using their state power and are breaching all the moral and cultural boundaries".
Ever since that announcement, the nationalist media in Delhi had been carrying on a relentless campaign against the proposed anti-India seminar. It attacked both the Central Government and the state government and urged both of them to stop the anti-India conclave. However, it was only today that the authorities under the nationalist pressure buckled and banned the conclave. The authorities have taken a right decision. Had they not appreciated the national sentiment and allowed Geelani and others to spit venom on India, the state government could have collapsed. |
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