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| For Omar Abdullah, Jammu youth are criminals; miscreants who pelt stones, wave IS flags are 'saints' | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 22: The former chief minister and NC's working president, Omar Abdullah in a Lower House on Wednesday while speaking during the discussion on allotments of grants for the departments held by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti made several bizarre remarks and one among them was that stone pelters in Kashmir valley "do not vandalise the public property."
Omar said that no FIR was registered against 22 people in Jammu who vandalized public property after sacrilegious act at a religious place. "The 22 people were released overnight. No one is in jail or no FIR has been registered against any person. But unfortunately a police officer was suspended," he said.
"Compared to it, our youth in Srinagar wave ISIS flags or pelt stones, they are booked. They don't vandalise public property," he said.
Such a statement coming from the person who once has served state's top post for six years was nothing but a startling remark that unmasked how peculiar one would become to grap headlines.
There are hundreds of forces personnel including those from the Jammu and Kashmir police who have been severely injured during the stone pelting incidents that have been taking place in Kashmir valley since 2008 at large. Vehicles have been torched, buildings raised to ground and men injured sadistically during the stone throwing incidents in Kashmir. But for Omar, stone pelters all of a sudden have become the 'peace ambassadors' who decide while vitiating the peace atmosphere that the stones must not damage the public property.
On March 11, this year, more than a dozen soldiers and an officer were injured after a crowd hurled stones on them at Ashmuqam village in Anantnag district.
On March 29, 2014, two police personnel including a sub-inspector were injured during stone-pelting in north Kashmir's Baramulla district.
On March 8, 2013, 77 police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were injured during clashes with protesters and stone pelting mobs in Kashmir. The police spokesman that time stated that in south Kashmir alone 180 police and CRPF personnel have been injured during clashes and more than 100 vehicles, most of them belonging to police and security forces, have been damaged by angry protesters during last one month.
It was none other than Omar Abdullah himself as the chief minister at that time who on record said that that the stones are being thrown not by frustrated residents -whose anger is understandable - but by "disruptive elements" seeking "to fish in troubled waters"
But as the National Conference witnessed its worst ever rout in 2014 polls and Omar had to bid adieu to state's top post, the stone throwers who have been eulogised as the 'Islamic Commandos' by the separatist groups too have emerged as heros for the NC's working president. |
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