Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leadership comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik on Tuesday urged prayer leaders across the state to make people aware about the ‘designs of Indian state’ in tinkering with the State Subject Law and take people’s commitment to protest and resist this move at all cost in their Eid sermons.
In a statement issued here, the leadership also urged Imams (prayer leaders) to ask people to raise their voice against the assault on state subject laws and the continued detention of hundreds of political prisoners after congregational Eid ul Azha prayers across Kashmir.
“The Leadership expressed its serious concern over the plight of Kashmiri political prisoners languishing in Indian jails for years and those booked by ED and NIA and lodged in solitary confinement and kept away from the basic medical facilities posing a huge threat to their lives,” the statement said.
They said that on one hand, New Delhi is ‘employing ploys’ to change the Muslim majority character of the State by trying to roll back state subject law and hence undermine its disputed nature and while on the other hand, notices and summons are being sent to resistance leadership to push them into submission.
“The leadership also asked Ulema and Imams of masjids and shrines of Kashmir to play their role in highlighting the sacrifices offered by the people of Kashmir and the oppression unleashed on Kashmiris and convey to the world community the dire need of their intervention to stop the ongoing repression in Kashmir and resolve the dispute,” the statement added.