Harassment, suspension of Kashmiri students in AMU undemocratic: Yasin Malik

Incarcerated chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik Monday said that suspension of four Kashmiri students at Aligarh Muslim University for allegedly offering funeral prayers in absentia for their former colleague was  a “shameful act” which amounted to ‘persecution of Kashmiris in the name of national interest’.  

“Throwing students out of educational institution and thus depriving them of seeking education can only be termed as the worst dictatorship and is in every respect condemnable act,” a JKLF spokesman quoted Yasin Malik as having said in his message from Sub Jail, Kothibagh, here. 

   

Recalling a page from Indian national independence movement, JKLF chairman said, “In 1941, great freedom fighter of India Subash Chander Bose escaped from police custody and soon after his escape a rumor about his death spread all over India. Moulana Abul Kalam Azad in his famous book: India wins freedom, has written that soon after Subash Chander Bose escaped and joined armed struggle, a rumor about his death was spread all over India.

Every Indian was feeling pain and agony about it and Ghandiji, who had serious ideological differences with Bose and stood for a complete non-violent resistance, wrote a condolence letter to the mother of Subash Chander Bose in which he termed Bose as a great patriot who sacrificed his life for Indian independence. Few days later Mounala Azad who was then president of Indian National Congress was summoned by British Viceroy who was furious about the letter and termed Ghandiji as a hypocrite who was propagating Ahimsa but glamorizing armed rebellion in his view.

Moulana Azad further writes in the book that when he informed Ghandiji about Viceroy’s assertions and anger GhandiJi uttered no word from his mouth but his facial expressions and eyes illustrated the affection he had for Subash Chander Bose. 

Today Ghandiji India is throwing Kashmiri scholars and students out of educational institutions and booking them for sedition for merely praying for a fellow student who chose to rebel against tyranny. This is actually travesty of democracy which is being done in the name of national interest.” 

He said, “Rulers, their authorities, media, vice- chancellors, police, agencies and forces, who have all turned into viceroys of new age, should introspect and visit this page of Indian history of freedom movement too so that they can collect some humility and envisage the value of freedom fighters.”

“By suspending these students and scholars for offering prayers for a fellow scholar you are pushing them to the wall and asking them to tread path of ultimate sacrifice. Isn’t this a criminal act of the state and isn’t this promoting violence?,”  JKLF chairman said.

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