Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Apr 8: The separatist leaders today called for protests and shutdown on Friday and Saturday respectively in Kashmir against Government’s move to establish townships for migrant Pandits.
The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman, Mohammad Yasin Malik announced that a protest would be held in Lal Chowk on Friday and asked people to observe shutdown on Saturday.
“We would not allow any separate colony for Kashmiri Pandits,” Malik said during a press conference adding “RSS and PDP are trying to turn Kashmir into another Palestine.” He said that they welcome Kashmiri Pandits to Kashmir and they have equal rights on this land as have the Muslims but the move to settle them in colonies will be resented.
The hardline Huriyat Conference leader Sayeed Ali Geelani accused Mufti Mohammad Syeed led PDP of surrendering before RSS and called for complete shutdown on Saturday against establishing separate ‘townships’ for migrant Pandits in the valley.
“PDP has made a complete surrender before RSS and BJP by accepting the establishment of separate townships for Pandits,” Geelani, who is in Delhi said in a statement.
Moderate Hurriyat Conference leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, said that any move to turn Kashmir into ‘Palestine’ would be resisted by the amalgam.
Mirwaiz urged people to protest against any move to settle Kashmiri Pandits in settlements. He, however, added that Pandits were part and parcel of ‘our society’ and they must return with dignity and stay in their houses among Muslim neighbours.
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