Srinagar, October 23 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, Indian police personnel arrested the Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Mohammad Yasin Malik and a member of Jammu and Kashmir Coordination Committee, Maulana Showkat Ahmad Shah from their houses in Srinagar on Thursday and shifted them to unknown destinations.
Mohammad Yasin Malik kick-started the election boycott campaign from Sonawari and urged people to stay away from the polls process. This is the first anti-election campaign by a pro-liberation leader after the announcement of poll schedule by Indian authorities. Hundreds of men, women and children participated in the anti-election rally amidst pro-freedom and anti-India slogans.
“The peaceful election boycott by the masses will be the biggest setback to Indian democracy. It will be a victory for us,” Yasin Malik had said while addressing people. He called on them to lodge their protest by observing civil curfew on the scheduled poll dates while staying in their homes and not casting the votes.
The JKLF Chairman asserted that the sacrifices rendered by Kashmiris would be safeguarded at all costs. “We have to sustain the mass uprising and take it to its logical conclusion. It is our responsibility to protect the peaceful uprising that has awakened the US, UN and international community from the deep slumber and compelled them to issue statements on Kashmir situation,” he added.
Yasin Malik maintained that the recent peaceful pro-liberations protest demonstrations have forced even the intellectual class of India to support Kashmiris’ right to self-determination.
The JKLF Chairman asked people to reject the pro-India politicians, who will be visiting them and seeking their vote. “The mainstream politicians are more concerned about the power and have been exploiting the sentiments of the people for their petty interests,” he said adding, “They will promise roads, employment and other things but you should make them leave alone and empty handed.”
Terming the so-called elections as a futile exercise, Yasin Malik said that the polls couldn’t be a substitute to Kashmiris’ right to self-determination.
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