Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 17: Disagreeing with the dangerous announcement of a unilateral ceasefire by the Union Home Minister, during the current month, scores of Panther activists led by Harsh Dev Singh Chairman, JKNPP and Yash Paul Kundal State president Young Panthers staged a protest demonstration at Exhibition Ground here, today.
The protesters while opposing the ceasefire declaration in the backdrop of encounters and civilian killings in Kashmir, torched the effigy of the BJP for putting the life of the security personnel at risk in the Valley. They accused the Saffron Party of appeasing Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti merely to keep the ‘dirty alliance’ intact in the State.
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Lambasting the BJP led Central Government for placating the separatists of the Valley, Harsh Dev Singh said that it had been evident from the Saffron Party’s incongruous stand over unilateral ceasefire that there was a dichotomy between MHA and MoD on the issue. “India’s Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman only recently backed Gen. Bipin Rawat’s stand that a unilateral ceasefire demanded by Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti was not a feasible option as the Indian Army had to “firmly handle” any terrorist activity that threatened the peace and harmony of the State. All of a sudden yesterday, the Home Minister, Rajnath Singh announcing one sided truce had raised eyebrows of the defence personnel besides billions of nationalist Indians who were feeling extremely demoralized and disparaged by the dangerous decision of the GoI. Its inability to snub the PDP’s demand of unilateral ceasefire against the militants had proved that BJP could digest any muck for power”, Harsh said.
Accusing the BJP of running with the hare and hunting with hound, Singh said that its duplicity and opportunist politics over the declaration of unilateral ceasefire had put the life of defence personnel in jeopardy and posed a serious threat to the peace and the national security.
Endorsing the stand of Indian Army against the unilateral ceasefire, Harsh asked who would stand guarantee that there would be no attacks from the other side. He said that with no guarantors on a cessation of violence from the other side, the said decision of GoI would make the security forces cannon fodder for the militants and the berserk mobs in the Valley.
Yash Paul Kundal, while asserting that terrorists had no religion, said that those who can attack children aged four years and the tourists could never be expected to have any feelings whether it was a holy month of Ramzan or a holy pilgrimage. Did they not attack the Amar Nath Ji pilgrims last year? How could the GoI ignore this fact? asked Kundal.
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