Srinagar, Dec 28 (KNS): Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising of Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik Thursday appealed people of Kashmir to boycott the Panchayat elections announced by the government.
In a joint statement issued to KNS, JRL said that “any sort of election under Indian occupational system be it for so-called assembly, parliament, municipal committee or Panchayat is meant only to harm the national interests of Kashmiris.”
“We cannot vote and hence strengthen the hands of those tyrants who separated innocent kids Maryam and Azra from their mothers and are forcing us to bury mutilated bodies of our kith and kin,” they said.
Appealing people of Kashmir to boycott Panchayat election ‘drama’ announced by the rulers, JRL leaders said, “Indian rulers and their Kashmiri stooges who on daily basis trample democracy and humanity, have been using this election drama to negate Kashmiri demand for self-determination and freedom.”
“As a living nation it is our responsibility to safeguard sacrifices rendered by our martyrs and never forget these sacrifices,” they said, adding that “how can we vote for those so-called rulers and their parties which are hell bent on installing RSS fascism in Jammu Kashmir, who wants to change the demography of this land and turn its Muslim majority into minority and who have killed thousands of men and women, who snatched eyesight of thousands by pellets, who have caged thousands of young and old, who are engaged in vandalizing our houses and putting our localities to flames in these cold days and who are using every tyrant method to suppress our resistance.”
The three pro-freedom leaders said that how can any Kashmiri vote and strengthen those who hanged Muhammad Maqbool Butt and Muhammad Afzal Guru, who used assemblies and institutions to formulate laws providing impunity to killer Indian forces which have till now killed more than one Lakh Kashmiris, attacked the chastity of mothers and sisters, killed thousands in custody, disappeared thousands after taking into custody and destroyed properties worth billions in Kashmir.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
JRL said that how can any Kashmiri strengthen tyrants who dance on the dead bodies of our young ones and compel us to carry mutilated corpses of our dear ones. “How can anyone of us vote for those who separated innocent kids’ Azra and Maryam from their mothers and deprived them from their love and affection?,” they questioned.
Leaders said that India and the local government repeatedly stage this election drama to hoodwink international community and pro-India parties and their leaders try to lure people in the name of roads, unemployment and other sugar coated things.
They said that soon this election ‘drama’ is over, these hypocrites, their masters in Delhi and media declare this vote as a vote for India and use this farce to camouflage atrocities and human rights abuses in Kashmir.
JRL leaders said that any sort of elections under Indian occupational system, be these for the assembly, parliament, municipal committee or Panchayat are meant only to harm the national interests of Kashmiris, strengthen illegal occupation, and hoodwink the international community.
While appealing for a complete and comprehensive boycott of these elections especially the recently announced Panchayat elections, JRL leaders said that elections and institutions formed by these elections are detrimental to the interests of Kashmiris and “as a living nation we all should keep away from this farce and boycott these elections in totality.”
Leaders said that by exemplary boycott of these elections, Kashmiris will deliver a message to India and to the international community that Kashmiri want freedom from Indian occupation and that they will accept nothing less than freedom and right to self determination. (KNS)