Srinagar: “Exemplary boycott of recent municipal elections has frustrated India and recent upsurge in oppression across the valley is a manifestation of this frustration,” said the chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik while addressing a gathering at ‘Masjid Bilal The bund’ on Friday.
In his address, Malik urged people to stay away from the election process, a statement issued to GNS said.
“It is our firm belief that elections held under occupation are detrimental to the interests of Jammu Kashmir and it is this process which has always strengthen the hands of illegal occupation here,” JKLF chairman said, adding, “It is these elections that have delayed the resolution of Jammu Kashmir issue and hence it is our national duty to always stay aloof from this harmful process.”
He said a new argument is being put forth by some “dubious”
people that the boycott is bringing in BJP to Kashmir and hence we should not do it. The same argument was propagated in 2014 to lure people for voting, he said.
“We want to tell people who are trying to mislead people through this deceit that it does not matter for a nation striving for its freedom that who is in charge of the oppression and tyranny as the duty of freedom seeking nation is only to keep treading the path of resistance against illegal occupation,” Malik said.
He also condemned the Thursday’s “attack” on people at Warpora Ganderbal “where many young and old were arrested and subjected to heinous and inhuman torture”.
JKLF chairman said “the people of Jammu Kashmir who are seeking their birth right of freedom and self-determination have not been and can never be cowed down by this Hitlerism in the garb of democracy and it is our firm resolve to remain steadfast and resist this colonial mindset and ugly oppression till the achievement of the desired goal”.
Meanwhile, JKLF has paid rich tributes to “one of the great martyrs of Kashmir Shaheed Shariq Ahmad Bakhshi” on his anniversary today.
“Shaheed Shariq was one of the brave sons of soil who embraced martyrdom at a tender age for the freedom of Jammu Kashmir. He belonged to a family that has rendered valuable sacrifices for the freedom and thus he inherited braveness from his mother’s lap,” JKLF said.
Meanwhile, JKLF leaders and activists staged protests at Sarai-Bala and Budshah Chowk on Friday against “ongoing Indian aggression and oppression” across the valley, the statement said. (GNS)
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