Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 19: Expressing concern over the separatists leader Sayed Ali Shah Geelani’s recent warning of launching an agitation against the widening of the existing track between Baltal and Holy Amarnath cave, Panun Kashmir has urged the authorities concerned not to pay heed to his communal outbursts under the guises of his love and concern of ecology. In a Political Affairs Committee meeting chaired by its convener Dr.Agnishekhar it condemned the communal intentions of Geelani.
Dr.Agnishekhar said had the love for environment and ecology been the real cause of concern for the Hurriyat leader, he should have expressed the similar apprehensions when Daksum-Kishtwar road and Mugul road were constructed cutting through forests. Why pollution and huge encroachments of famous Dal Lake has not disturbed Geelani in the past, he asked?.
Dr.Agnishekhar remided the people that the same Hurriyat leader and his ilk triggered massive agitation in 2008 over the transfer of the piece of land to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board for construction of transit hutments at Baltal for the yatris.
Prof.M.K.Raina,chairman of PAC said that on the one hand Hurriyat leader out rightly rejects secularism as un-Islamic concept that facilitates different religio-cultural groups to co-exist unconditionally with equal dignity and honour and on the other hand he now pleads the return of the displaced Kashmiri Pandits to the Valley. It is no prerogative of Hurriyat leader to suggest that Amarnath Yatra should be managed by the local Kashmiri Pandits and that yatra be limited to 15 days only, he added.
Sanjay Dattartriya national convener PK and
O.N Bhatt urged the separatist leader not to intervene and hurt the religious sentiments of crores of Hindus in general and Kashmiri Pandits in particular.
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