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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 29: Agitated over the alleged chopping-off hair of an unarmed Sikh youth at Tral area of Pulwama district in Kashmir valley, activists of various Sikh organizations today held massive protest demonstrations at different parts of the city.
To express their anguish, the protesting youths representing Dashmesh Sikh Organisation and Guru Manyo Granth Society organised separate protest demonstrations in Digiana and Nanak Nagar to register their anger.
The protesters blocked the Jammu-Pathankot National Highway for some time and burnt tyres besides staging sit-ins on the road.
The protestors demanded immediate action against the culprits to avert further repercussions.
"We strongly condemn the act of chopping up of hair of a sikh youth and we warn the state government to weed out such anti-social elements from the society else the sikh community would be forced to take preventive measures on their own." Said one of the protesters
Traffic on highway remained disrupted due to protest demonstration and the vehicular movement was regulated only after the sikh youth dispersed after holding protest demonstration.
The protestors regarded this act against the long back brotherhood of the Valley; they said “we also know how to embank limits, but we are not violence lovers, such incidents only creates communal disorder, which is not good for state, and Kashmir in particular,” said they, adding that this is the time for Muslim brethrens to show reliability and come forward and pitch against this act.
Later on after being informed about the arrest of culprits, the protestors pacified but they demanded stern action against them. “They have hurt the sentiments of the entire Sikh community, we urge government to punish culprits with hard hands,” said protestors.
“After the information of arrest of two culprits accused in this crime, the protestors calmed down and disperse to their homes without creating further chaos,” said police sources
Guru Manyo Granth Society in a press statement said, "Attack on a Sikh youth by the members of majority community in which his hair were chopped off is highly condemnable as this is a direct attack on the community" The Sikhs who have been protesting against the barbaric killing of innocent Kashmiris have asked the separatist leaders like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and others who say that Sikhs are a part of the Kashmir to condemn the incident. We question the criminal silence of these leaders who have not uttered a single word to condemn the barbaric act.
“If they say the ongoing freedom struggle was not of the Muslims only but of Sikhs and Hindus in Kashmir also, then why these so called leaders of Kashmir have not uttered a single word to condemn the attack on Sikh community, their criminal silence is highly suspicious of their role in a planned attack on the members of the Sikh community,” said Jasdeep Singh president of the Guru Manyo Granth Society.
“This shows that the so called freedom struggle in Kashmir is not about the people of Kashmir, but it is specific to a community otherwise the members of the majority community would have come forward to condemn the attack,” Singh Said.
Sikh students under the banner of Jammu Joint Students Federation (JJSF) also held a protest demonstration at Shaheedi Sthal near GGM Science College.
Led by their state vice president Partap Singh Jamwal, the JJSF activists burnt effigy of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and raised anti-government slogans.
Kranti Dal also staged a protest demonstration against the chopping-off hair of a Sikh youth in valley.
The protesters led by Kranti Dal Youth president Samarjit Singh raised slogans against the state government and separatists.
Similar protests were also reported from other parts of Jammu, including RS Pura, Akhnoor, Simbal Camp and Gadigarh.
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