Geelani provoking & communalizing proposed Shri Amarnathji road : Ashwani

Jammu, October 20 (Scoop News)- Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo, President, Panun Kashmir expresses its serious concern and disgust over the reported statement of Syed Ali Shah Geelani threatening agitation against the decision to construct a concrete road up to the holy Amarnath cave shrine. The reported reasons given by the secessionist leader are both ludicrous and vicious in nature.

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Addressing a Press conference in Jammu Ashwani Kumar said that the statement of Geelani has the potential to provoke and communalize the people of Kashmir and recreate the atmosphere of Amarnath agitation days. Under these circumstances, the reported move of secessionist leaders to visit Pakistan, and the government’s acquiescence to the same is fraught with dangerous consequences. The government needs to clarify its policy on the subject keeping in view the importance of the matter

He told reporters that the opposition to the move of providing facilities to the Amarnath pilgrims smacks of a clear communal and sectarian mind-set. He said that  Amaranth pilgrims have been suffering unusually high causalities due to lack of appropriate facilities enroute.  The objections relating to ‘environmental degradation etc.’ were never raised in case of Mughal Road and Sinthan Road where thousands of trees had to be cut. In the case of Amarnath shrine, objections are being raised hurting the sentiments of the Hindu society including the indigenous Pandits of Kashmir.  The statement of Geelani has the potential to provoke and communalize the people of Kashmir and recreate the atmosphere of Amarnath agitation days. Under these circumstances, the reported move of secessionist leaders to visit Pakistan, and the government’s acquiescence to the same is fraught with dangerous consequences. The government needs to clarify its policy on the subject keeping in view the importance of the matter.

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