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| Geelani's protest call for Eid worries police, BJP | | Biker rallies feared across Srinagar streets | | Jasbir Sarai | 7/17/2015 11:32:45 PM |
| Early Times Report
Srinagar, July 17: Seemingly obsessed with protests, separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani wants the people of Kashmir to spend even auspicious Eid ul Fitr staging roadside demonstrations. The firebrand leader has given a formal call for protests on the festival day putting the police on tenterhooks amid apprehensions of violence.
While police has inputs that apart from stone pelting, bikers would take out rallies across Srinagar streets, there are apprehensions that Pakistani flags would be waved at many places including some vital installations.
Geelani who heads Hurriyat Conference (G) has urged the people to stage protests across Kashmir for half an hour after Eid-ul-Fitr prayers "against the harassment of the Jammu Muslims, non-release of political prisoners, mysterious killings and arresting of hundreds of youth ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr."
"Since the inception of new government backed by the communal forces, the graph of the human rights violation has shown an alarming increase and the life of the common man has become very difficult," Geelani said in a statement.
"We should not forget those brave hearts of the soil on this day of pleasure who sacrificed their youth for the better future of their nation and had left behind a huge responsibility on us in the shape of their widows, half-widows and orphans," Geelani said.
"Eid is however a day of happiness and pleasure but our nation is passing through a difficult phase of the history and how can we enjoy the full pleasure of the Eid when we are everyday shouldering the funerals of our dear ones. Hundreds of our loved ones are imprisoned in far of jails, innocent students are being kept in interrogation and torture centers where they are subjected to worst kind of custodial torture and the common people are harassed and insulted by conducting house to house search operations and crackdowns," he added.
Geelani's call has put police on tenterhooks as protests on Eid in the previous years ended up in widespread violence and civilian causalities when finally police had to clamp curfew.
"Just four years ago, it was on Eid when two major government office buildings were torched by revelers just next to the civil secretariat so situation is a bit tense that too when waving of Pakistan and ISIS flags has emerged as recurring trouble," a police official told Early Times. Sources said Inspector General of Police SJM Geelani held deliberations with police and paramilitary CRPF to chalk out a strategy so that the deployments make minimal use of force in case of any eventuality.Police said "sensitive areas" with regard to protest demonstrations include Srinagar, Kulgam, Tral, Sopore, Pattan and Anantnag and Shopian. "Around 5,000 security personnel will man the Srinagar roads alone," said a police official pleading anonymity. Many people have condemned the Geelani's call saying that such attempts mostly put life of youth at risk. "Young blood doesn't know the repercussions of such activities and they very often get driven away in protests. Geelani should have refrained from such calls and let the people celebrate Eid happily," said Aijaz Ahmed a government employee. Bharatiya Janta Party spokesman Khalid Jehangir expressed serious concern over Geelani's call. He said such calls aim at nothing but "spoiling the mood of festivity." "He(Geelani) knows that their agenda has failed before people… In a bid to gain some support such elements are hell bent to spoil the festivity mood," Jehangir told Early Times. |
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