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| BJP dissociates from allowing Hurriyat-stake holders talks | | Says meeting mere eyewash, millionaires invited for interaction | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 10: Even as the government decision to allow united Hurriyat to hold meeting with the "stakeholders" on November 8 bore no fruit, the coalition partner Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has dissociated itself from having given a go ahead for any such development.
Terming the meeting as "eyewash", the BJP said the stakeholders who attended the meeting were multimillionaires who don't represent the aspirations of the people of Kashmir.
The BJP issued the statement barely an hour after Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front(JKLF) Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik was arrested here.
The BJP said Kashmiri people don't recognize the so-called civil society members, who have advised separatists to continue the shutdown in Kashmir.
In a statement the BJP spokesman Khalid Jehangir said: "The people, who attended the so-called meeting of stakeholders, comprised of businessmen, who are multi-millionaires and have got nothing to do with the common people. Besides these few people, separatists had invited their own activists for the meeting to ensure that no one opposes them so that they can carry on with the protest calendar, which has ruined Kashmir."
He said: "The people who attended the meeting were the stooges and yes-men of separatists. Genuine representatives of the people were not invited for the meeting as they would have embarrassed the separatists by opposing them."
Jehangir said people of Kashmir are defying the shutdown call given by the separatists and are openly opposing their diktats.
The BJP statement was in response to the meeting held at the residence of senior separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani at his Hyder Pora residence co-chaired by Hurriyat M Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and the JKLF Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik.
While Malik was arrested this afternoon, Mirwaiz was again put under house arrest.
While the BJP has expressed reservations over the government having allowed the separatists to hold meeting with the "stakeholders", the government was hopeful that the meeting would help in restoration of normalcy and that separatists would soften the protest program.
But the separatists ended up saying that the protests would continue as the "same has been desired by the stakeholders."
On the day of meeting the police was virtually helping the Hurriyat leaders in arrangements for the meeting by allowing only those invited by Geelani, to enter the lane leading to his house.
The police was verifying the identity of every visitor who was desirous of entering lane leading to the house of Geelani. |
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