Geelani calls for strike on April 11
Srinagar,April 08: Warning that situation could go out of hand, if Dogra Certificate order isn’t revoked immediately, the Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, called for a shutdown on April 11 against issuance of Dogra Certificate and imposition of property tax.
In a statement, Geelani said, “The Dogra certificate is not a surprise development but a part of India’s long-term policy. New Delhi not only wants to effect a demographic change in Jammu and Kashmir but is also engaged in the process of establishing the dominance of a particular section over the majority.”
“This section already enjoys more than its fair share in incentives, jobs and economic privileges, and the majority has always been robbed of its economic rights to appease this class,” he said.
The Dogra certificate, he said, is aimed purely to give legal and constitutional sanction to this injustice and inequality to emasculate the majority further,” he said.
“The certificate is also a mechanism to settle Dogri-speaking non-state subjects in Jammu and Kashmir, and those who have had past associations with Dogra nationalism,” he said.
“The RSS ideology is to convert Jammu and Kashmir into Dogar Desh and turning the state’s majority into a minority. Around 2.5 to 5 lakh people were slaughtered in Jammu in 1947 to give this plan a practical shape, and a systematic genocide of Muslims is on even today,” he said.
“The state’s rulers are concerned only about their power, and therefore they not only remain silent over such conspiracies but also actively aid New Delhi in carrying them out,” he added.
Warning that if Dogra Certificate order isn’t revoked immediately, ‘situation could go out of hand.’ “All the responsibility would lie on the shoulders of the government,” he warned.
On Property tax, Geelani said, “This is an anti-people legislation aimed at crippling the economy of the people of Kashmir. Such legislation’s are aimed at choking the progress and prosperity of Kashmir and harass the people.”
“On one hand salaries of MLAs are being doubled while on the other economy of Kashmir is being crippled,” he alleged.
Geelani called for a shutdown on April 11 issuance of Dogra Certificate and imposition of property tax.
————-Bashir Assad—————–