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| Shrine land stir activists participated in 2008 elections: Geelani | | Delhi-Islamabad pact on J&K would be never acceptable to Kashmiris | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, May 22: Separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani today declined to take upon himself responsibility of the failure of Amarnath land allotment agitation in 2008. He put the blame on the people of Kashmir valley and complained that those who were in the frontline of the agitation also participated in the elections with the alibi of seeking better roads, electricity and water.
While addressing a seminar on implications of current census operation, ban on inter-district recruitment with reservation of 8 percent of the vacancies for Scheduled Caste candidates in all districts and the Kashmir problem, Geelani asserted that his call to resume normal business activity after three months of turmoil had not failed the mass agitation in Kashmir valley in 2008. He, instead, passed the buck to the people themselves and complained that those who were in the forefront of the agitation had also participated in the Assembly elections with one or the other excuse.
Geelani said that the people who wanted to make a somersault justified their participation in the elections with the argument that it would fetch them jobs, better road communication, power and water supplies. He said that resilience and perseverance were key to success of all mass movements.
Geelani asserted that any political resolution of the Kashmir imbroglio worked out between New Delhi and Islamabad without the involvement of the Kashmiri leadership would never be acceptable to the people of Kashmir. "Even if Pakistan lays a hundred thumb impressions on such kind of a deal, it's not going to be acceptable to the people of Kashmir", Geelani said.
Head of the hardline faction of the Hurriyat, Geelani alleged that "conspiracies" were underway to change the demographic character and composition of the "disputed state". According to him, results of the current census operation in Jammun & Kashmir were likely to be manipulated in the interest of the non-Kashmiri, non-Muslim component of the state population. He alleged that recent legislation on banning inter-district recruitment in all government services with the reservation of 8 percent of the vacancies for SC candidates of Jammu province was also Omar Abdullah-led coalition government's "conspiracy" to plant non-Kashmiris and non-Muslims in the Muslim-majority Kashmior valley and thus change its demography.
Geelani claimed that a large number of non-J&K people had already succeeded in assuming domicile of the state of Jammu & Kashmir.
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