Pro-resistance leaders ‘real heirs’ of 1931 martyrs, says Er Rasheed
Srinagar: Kashmiri separatist leaders rather than their mainstream counterparts are the “real heirs” of the 22 Kashmiris, who were martyred on July 13, 1931 outside Srinagar’s Central Jail by the Dogra forces, AIP President, Er Rasheed said on Friday.
While Maharaja “suppressed the voices of masses without taking directions from anyone” Rasheed, in an apparent reference to the Kashmiri mainstream, said, “Those claiming Kashmiris to be part of largest democracy of the world are doing worst with the citizens of the state just on the directions of New Delhi”.
“Let us be honest in confessing that the real legal heirs of martyrs of 1931 are those languished in jails, facing atrocities every day and pro-resistance leaders who have been caged by the state,” Rasheed said in a statement on the eve of Martyrs’ Day.
While the 1931 martyrs had sacrificed their lives for a better future of their generations, “but the fact is that Kashmiris have seen nothing changing, except getting rid of autocratic rule of Maharaja and then finding themselves in a more humiliating and miserable situation at the hands of so called democratically elected governments from 1947 till date,” the AIP said.
The martyrs of 13 July “had not laid down their lives for barricades, sieges and bulldozing all rights of people of Jammu and Kashmir at the hands of controlled democracy,” Rasheed said.
Rasheed suggested to New Delhi that “hearts are not won by keeping guns on the heads but reconciliation is only possible if the fundamental rights of Kashmiris are restored and Jammu and Kashmir is made India’s integral part through a free and fair plebiscite, as promised by New Delhi itself from time to time”.
He said that the purpose for which martyrs of 13 July, 1931 laid down their lives “will always remain a dream till Kashmir issue is resolved on basis of justice and in its historic perspective”.
Rasheed also asked mainstream political parties to “give up hypocrisy”.
“Isn’t it unfortunate that India did not figure as a union on 13 July 1931 and Pakistan’s name did not even exist on papers, but Jammu and Kashmir was a sovereign state, not directly controlled by British,” he pointed out.
“However as of now Kashmiris are trapped between the animosity of India and Pakistan and their identity, respect, dignity and honor are facing existential crises,” Rasheed pointed out.
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