Incarcerated chairman of Jammu Kashmir liberation front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik while reacting to Indian Prime Minister Nerender Modi’s assertions at Udhampur today said that if tunnels and roads would have been a substitute to freedom and dignity then British should have never left India as it had developed Indian infrastructure enormously. He said people who sided with British during Indian freedom struggle can never understand the ethos of freedom struggle and psyche of freedom lovers. In a statement issued to KNS, while terming the statement of Indian prime minister in which he has said that Kashmiris should choose between terrorism and tourism and that youth striving for freedom are misguided as absurd, JKLF chief in his message from jail said that British ruled India for more than 200 years and during that period they developed Indian infrastructure enormously. It was British who developed Indian railway system and irrigation canals that are until now benefitting whole subcontinent and if the standards of Modi Jee were to be applied then British should never have left Indian neither should have Ghandi, Nehru, Subash Chander Bose, Baghat Singh and Moulana Azad strived for the freedom of India.
Yasin Malik said that our reply to Modi Jee is the same that was given by Ghandi Jee to a British envoy who had posed same type of question to him that how can poor Indian survive independently, Ghandi had replied that he would prefer a non-competent poor independent rule over a competent and wealthy illegal occupation and slavery.Yasin Malik said that people who have been trained by an ideology which supported British during the Indian freedom struggle can never understand the ethos and ethics of freedom struggle. They can never understand the psyche of people striving for their freedom and dignity. He said that by demonizing freedom loving people especially youth of Kashmir, Modi has actually emitted his venom against Kashmiris. Yasin Malik said that Modi Jee should understand that roads and tunnels cannot make a nation change its track neither can intimidations and oppressions deter a nation that has resolved to end illegal occupation from perusing its righteous path. JKLF chairman said that Kashmiri youth are most learned and competent enough to compete with the rest of the world but illegal occupation of India and oppression unleashed against them has deprived them a chance to excel and if Modi Jee and indian stooges in Kashmir really want Kashmiri youth to prosper they should accept the verdict of overwhelming majority of Kashmir and free this nation from its illegal occupation. (KNS)