Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Feb 9: Accu-sing the BJP of double standards over the obnoxious trend of J&K Police filing FIR against the Indian Army in Kashmir, scores of Panther activists led by Harsh Dev Singh its Chairman staged a demonstration at Jantar Mantar here, today.
The infuriated protesters accused the Saffron party for surrendering once again over its tall slogans of ’56 inches chest of PM Modi’, ‘Zero tolerance against terror’, etc merely for keeping its alliance intact with its Kashmir centric partner PDP and the separatists in good humour.
Addressing the media, Harsh Dev Singh said that the ominous BJP-PDP coalition had been appeasing the communal separatists and the stone pelters who were overtly assaulting and manhandling the security personnel in Kashmir. He lamented that during the bizarre era of last three years in J&K, the Indian soldiers were consistently heckled, stoned, jeered, humiliated and even slapped which had never happened before.
He said that the Indian Army had relentlessly protected our sovereignty and integrity but their victimization at the hands of anti-national elements in full public view had raised the question mark on the credibility of the BJP and its kernel philosophy of nationalism. Referring to the Kulgam episode a couple of days ago, he divulged that once again FIR was registered against the Indian Army’s 10 Garhwal Unit, when the forces opened fire at a group pelting stones at a patrol party.
He said that last month also in Shopian, the mob comprising hundreds of maniacal saboteurs pelted stones on the convoy of 10 Garwal unit and tried to snatch a weapon of a JCO with the intention to lynch him. He regretted that instead of encouraging the morale of the Army, the BJP partnered Government once again slapped FIR on Major Aditya and his unit under Section 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder) and 336 (endangering life) of the RPC for no reason. The Army exhibited an exemplary courage of exercising maximum restraint while countering the stone pelters but when the subversives crossed all the limits and posed a threat to the life of a soldier, it had no other option than to open a fire to disperse the crowd in the situation which called for an appropriate action under self defence, Harsh said.
Prominent among those addressed the rally included Romesh Khajuria, Sham Gorkha, Mohinder Singh, Udayveer, Vishav Singh, Rajiv Jolly Khosla, Surjit Singh, Dildar Hussain Beg, Gurcharan Singh beside others.
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