Revoking orders tantamount to confessing guilt: Er Rasheed
Srinagar: Awami Itehaad Party (AIP) president and MLA Langate, Engineer Abdul Rasheed Sheikh on Tuesday said that the withdrawal of an order regarding introduction of religious books in colleges, schools and universities was a confession of guilt and has exposed the proxies of Sang Parivar and their nefarious designs.
In a statement issued here, Er Rasheed said, “The circular issued by the education department was itself self explanatory and one could realize the designs behind the government order asking educational institutions to purchase and keep available Bhagwat Geeta and Ramayana in sufficient numbers in all educational institutions.”
“No one is against giving students moral and religious education but choosing a particular religion is ample proof that the order is itself a step towards saffronising the education in a Muslim dominated state,” he said.
He said that if central government believes in spreading messages of various religions then it should have asked all states to make available holy Quran and other religious books to students but by being selective and asking J&K government through its proxies to make available Bhagwat Geeta and Ramayana, Sang Parivar stands badly exposed.
“However by withdrawing the order within 24 hours state government has confessed the guilt and it is imperative for the government to explain why it needed to issue a communally designed order and then had to withdraw it after realizing that said order has not gone well within the majority community,” he said.
Er Rasheed appealed Governor S.P Malik not to cross the redline and not to become a tool to fulfill the communal and anti-Muslim agenda of Sang Parivar and said that “all such conspiracies aimed at changing the Muslim dominated charter of the state will be resisted at all costs.”
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