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| Setback for Hurriyat: Youth defy protest calendar | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 10: In a major setback for the united Hurriyat, the youth here Saturdayopenly defied the protest calendar announced by the separatists, by disallowing shopkeepers to open their shops during the relaxation.
As per the protest calendar issued by the united Hurriyat, the markets were scheduled to open at 6:00 pm. But as the poor traders opened their shops in Lal Chowk, the heart of the summer capital and adjoining areas, group of agitated youth appeared in the area, asking the traders to close their shops.
In the meantime, some youth announced from loudspeakers installed at mosques not to open any shops while customers who had come for Eid shopping were asked to silently go back home.
When some of the traders argued with the youth that it was "relaxation call", the response "shocked them." "Who the hell is Hurriyat to decide on when should we open and when we shouldn't we," the angry youth shouted back.
Apprehending trouble the shopkeepers decided not to open the shops but to go back home. "Now we don't know whom to follow, everyone is a leader here," a shopkeeper pleading anonymity told Early Times.
The public fury has greeted Hurriyat at a time when the separatists have already been criticized for extending the protest program. A section of the business fraternity complained that after spoiling the tourist season for summer of 2016, the separatists didn't even allow traders to do business ahead of the Eid ul Azah.
Incidentally just yesterday the ruling Peoples Democratic Party led government openly criticized the separatists for issuing calendar which has put the people to hardships.
Senior PDP leader and Education minister Naeem Akhtar on Friday asked Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani and other separatist leaders to tell people that schools and business establishments will remain closed till they achieve "freedom".
"Informal education is no solution to the present challenge of educational competition. Classroom atmosphere and attendance of students in laboratories and libraries is must for the competitive education," Akhtar said.
He hit out at separatist leadership for "crippling" education and economy of Jammu and Kashmir.
"Education and business are worst targets of the present unrest in Kashmir. Let Syed Ali Shah Geelani and his separatist colleagues tell the people that schools and business establishments will remain closed till they achieve their goal. It is necessary so that parents know what to do with the education of their children," Akhtar said.
"It would be better for separatist leadership to issue the protest calendar for entire year than issuing the weekly protest calendars," the Education minister said. |
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