Hurriyat (G) condemns gag on Mridu Rai’s lecture

5 Dariya News (Muzaffar Bhat, Rouf Pampori)

Srinagar 10-Jul-2014

While strongly condemning the government action of banning the lecture which was scheduled to be delivered by a prominent Indian author and academician Mridu Rai, Hurriyat (G) Thursday said that Jammu & Kashmir is actually a police state where the government is totally intolerant towards the opposite voices.In a statement issued to GNS, the hurriyat spokesman said, though India is claiming to be the largest democratic country of the world but this claim is miserably exposing in Kashmir where the freedom of expression has been practically banned and the people are not allowed to peacefully put forth their view point.

The spokesman termed the ignorance expressed by the district administration about the ban on the lecture as surprising and ridicules and said that the Deputy Commissioner should explain that which authority other than he, who can ban such events and who is authorized to do so.The spokesman said that Jammu & Kashmir is said to be having an elected government but actually the orders of Indian home ministry are followed here and they want to control everything of this state of their own, even the atmosphere.“The democratic and basic rights of the citizens have been snatched from them and no one is in position to freely express his views. He said that India actually wants to hide the serious and severe situation of Jammu & Kashmir from the outer world and for that they can go to any extent”, the spokesman said.

It has now become the routine to ban and restrict the seminars and academic conferences of the fro-freedom people and today by banning the lecture of a prominent Indian author in Srinagar, the government has proven that they don’t want to listen the reality regarding the Kashmir in any way, even if the speaker is an Indian citizen, the spokesman said.According to the spokesman, the internet has revolutionized the communication system of the present era and there are many ways available with the people to reach every corner of the world, banning of such conferences and events in this era is ridicules on the part of government and it is absolute ignorance of the banning authority, the spokesman further added. (GNS)