Mirwaiz asks Mainstream PDP to join if they were serious in solving kashmir dispute

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Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) legislators to resign from the assembly and join the freedom movement, “if the PDP leadership was sincere in its protests against the human rights violations.”

“Whenever National Conference or PDP are out of power, they speak about rights violations,” Mirwaiz told . He said if PDP president, Mehbooba Mufti and her colleagues are so concerned about the rights abuses, they should immediately resign from the Assembly and join the people’s movement.
Mirwaiz’s reaction came in the backdrop of PDP legislators protest march on Tuesday. Mehbooba along with 11 PDP legislators were detained after they took out a protest march against the alleged rape and murder of two young women in south Kashmir district of Shopian.
“PDP has the best opportunity to prove that the party is not trying to draw any political mileage out of this serious issue,” Mirwaiz said and added that the history is, however, witness that the Kashmir’s mainstream parties stand for the people’s sentiment only when they are out of power.
Ridiculing the chief minister Omar Abdullah’s remarks that the pro-freedom groups were trying to derive political mileage out of the Shopian incident, Mirwaiz said nobody could play politics with an unfortunate incident involving the chastity of our mothers and sisters. “Should we remain silent on what has happened in Shopian?” he quipped.
Accusing the chief minister of trying to hush up the issue, Mirwaiz said as announced by the chief minister, the probe is going to take one month. “I ask him in such a grave situation, how so much of time could be justified,” he said and added that it is just a Government tactics to hush up the matter.
“Right from Chattisinghpora to Wandhama incidents, findings of not a single probe were made public. The government wants to bury this issue as well,” he said.
Mirwaiz said that pro-freedom groups would launch massive agitation against the Shopian incident. “This issue is much bigger than any party or individual as the dignity of our daughters and sisters is at stake,” he said and added that all the pro-freedom parties should work together in this testing moment.
Mirwaiz said the Hurriyat Conference would chalk out the future course of action on Friday after consulting all its constituents. “We will try to take everybody along on this sensitive issue,” he said.
Asked whether there was any communication going on between two factions of Hurriyat, he said, “Shabir Shah Sahib was expected to meet Geelani Sahib, but I think he has been arrested. Insha Allah something good would come out in the interest of the nation,”