No threat to Yatra: Geelani
‘Delhi Raising Bogey To Defame
Movement’
Geelani
Asserting
that there is no threat to Amarnath Yatra, Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman
Syed Ali
Shah Geelani Wednesday alleged that Army’s Operative Shiva for the
protection of the pilgrimage was New Delhi’s political move to malign
Kashmiris’ struggle.
“The proposed
Operation Shiva is a well planed and calculated move aimed at maligning and
discrediting the ongoing freedom struggle because there is no threat to the
yatris either from people or from militants. It is highly deplorable that India
is trying to mislead its people as well as international community,” Geelani
said in a statement.
Geelani
clarified that people of Kashmir have never opposed or objected to the Yatra.
“However, the Government of India is trying to use a religious ritual as a tool
to implement their political and military objectives,” he said.
Geelani alleged
that Amarnath Shrine Board was running a parallel government in Jammu and
Kashmir. “Operation Shiva has multi-dimensional implications. Its main
objective is to handover Yatra route to armed forces in order to project the
freedom movement as a sectarian strife against a particular sect and create
worries and apprehensions among the yatris and their families,” he said.
Geelani said
the people of Jammu and Kashmir are not communal and have nothing to do with
sectarian politics. “Kashmiris are famous for their humble nature and
hospitality. The Amarnath Yatra is being conducted for the last 150 years and
during all these years the people of Jammu and Kashmir have treated yatris with
unique hospitality,” he said.
Recalling the
“blockade of supplies to Kashmir by some sections of people belonging to Jammu
in 2008 during the people’s uprising when forces were showering bullets and
killing innocent Kashmiris,” he said the locals those days also provided
shelter to yatris in their houses and served them food.
Referring to
incidents like Chatti Singhpora and Alfaran episodes, Geelani said, “The armed
forces under the garb of these fake episodes in the past tried to give bad name
to the freedom struggle but the truth prevailed and they failed in their
nefarious designs.”
Reiterating
his demand to hand over the affairs of Amaranth Yatra to local Pandits, Geelani
said the yatra should be run on Gangotri pattern and the number of visiting
pilgrims be limited to save the fragile atmosphere.
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