Er Rasheed stages barefooted walk inside civil secretariat
Expresses solidarity with people of Karnah, Gurez’
Srinagar: On the concluding day of the three day sit-in seeking tunnel for Karnah and Gurez, AIP President and PUF leader Er Rasheed staged a barefooted walk inside the civil secretariat Srinagar.
Rasheed said the walk was staged “to express solidarity with the people of Karnah and Gurez and protest against silence of the government over the issue”.
Talking to media persons on conclusion of sit-in, Rasheed said that government “will have to do justice with the people of Karnah and Gurez, who are living a miserable life for the want of proper road connectivity”.
He termed the sit-in a “wakeup call for the state and central government and steps should be taken to ensure that work on the tunnels starts at an earliest, so that precious lives, time and energy is saved”.
People of Karnah and Gurez, he said, “do not need cross border shelling, neither has government of India and Pakistan have any moral authority to make these places battle fields and still deprive the innocent but brave citizens of these places from getting basic amenities”.
Later, Rasheed along with Sheikh Ghulam Nabi, retired District and Sessions Judge from Karnah on behalf of civil society Karnah walked in civil secretariat to submit the memorandum to the government.
Rasheed said that walking barefooted to civil secretariat was “just a message not for the government but the common masses too not to underestimate the sufferings of people of border areas and we all must treat them too as humans”.
“People in most of the cities and towns had macadamized roads but isn’t it shameful that in Karnah and Gurez it takes sometimes even a week to reach dead body his home?” he asked.
Rasheed submitted a memorandum to the government through Chief Secretary urging union and state governments to take up the construction work for Karnah and Gurez tunnels in hand at an earliest.
He added that he will be writing to Union surface transport minister Mr. Nitin Gadkari over the issue.
“If government fails to respond positively, we will knock and rock power corridors in Delhi by peaceful sit-in and other means”. He added.
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