Indian media’s ‘hateful propaganda’ planned conspiracy against Geelani: APHC
The Hurriyat Conference headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Friday said the ‘venomous and hateful propaganda’ of Indian media against the amalgam’s chairman ‘is part of a well planned conspiracy’.
There has been widespread outrage over Geelani’s remarks where he hailed the slain militants of Tral and called them ‘martyrs’. A section of Indian media is even demanding arrest of Geelani, who is in Delhi at present.
The General Secretary of Hurriyat Conference, Ghulam Nabi Sumji, in a statement cautioned that ‘if any untoward incident’ happens with the Geelani in New Delhi, ‘then all its responsibility would be on those news channels who are making hue and cry over a recent press statement of the Hurriyat conference and who are preparing a provocative atmosphere out of nothing’.
Sumji said the Hurriyat doesn’t get pleased over the death of any human being, an apparent hint towards the slain Colonel MN Rai and a cop of Special Operation Group, who were killed by militants in Tral, whom Geelani and other pro-freedom leaders hailed.
However, Hurriyat, while blaming India, said: “But it is our standing policy that the loss of precious human lives going on in Jammu & Kashmir is the result of the rigid and stubborn approach of the Indian government and the unrealistic attitude of India is proving to be the basic reason for the disharmony and instability in this region,” the amalgam’s General Secretary said.
“On 29 January Thursday, reporters and cameramen of the many TV channels arrived at the temporary residence of Geelani sahib in Delhi and despite his refusal some of them forcibly entered in his house. Their purpose although was to interview the Geelani sahib about a press statement but their attitude was very aggressive and they were looking like a gathering of the RSS workers rather than the media persons,” Sumji said in the statement.
He alleged: “Geelani sahib although refused to talk to them but they remained unmoved outside his residence till the evening and harassed him and his family members. Their behavior was very offensive and they were talking in a different tone which was in no way looking as a journalistic language.”
The senior Hurriyat leader said debates on various channels were ‘full of negative propaganda’ aimed at creating a ‘provocative atmosphere’ in Delhi. “…So that the communal forces will get tip off it,” he alleged.
“Some baseless and false allegations were also leveled against his family in these programs and his family will think over the legal action against them,” the statement issued by Sumji said, adding there is nothing new in Hurriyat statements, referring to hailing militants as ‘martyrs’. “Indian news channels tried to make an issue out of nothing,” he said.
He said the Hurriyat Conference is peacefully struggling for the Kashmir cause and is purely political organization. “But due to the rigidity and stubbornness of the Indian rulers, some people opt for such violent path which was adopted by the few people of India during their freedom struggle against the Englishmen,” he said, referring to youths who pick up arms in Kashmir.
Calling the youths who pick up arms as ‘brave’, he said Hurriyat has ‘clear stand’ regarding them as ‘they are sacrificing their present for the better future of their nation’.
