Srinagar: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti Thursday said that the widespread condemnation of Amarnath yatries attack in the state conveyed to the world that Kashmiris will not tolerate such things and showed that Kashmiriyat is alive.
Mehbooba said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir should remember the sacrifices of the martyrs who laid down their lives for democratic rule and prosperous Jammu and Kashmir with Kashmiriyat its fundamental principle.
“All the people irrespective of their ideologies and groups got together and condemned the attack on Amarnath yatries to give the world a message that Kashmiriyat is still alive and Kashmiris will not tolerate such incidents which are against Kashmiriyat,” Mehbooba said.
“We should remember the lessons of the day and fight those people who have created fear and kept us hostage. We should struggle to bring back that Kashmir for which these martyrs laid their lives,” she said.
According to KNS correspondent, Mehbooba paid tributes and laid floral wraths to the martyrs of 1931, who laid down their lives fighting the autocratic rule in the state.
Mehbooba visited Martyrs’ graveyard in Khawaja Bazar area of the old city here. She was accompanied by senior Ministers of the ruling PDP. A guard of honour was presented by a contingent of the state police and floral tributes were paid.
On July 13, 1931, 22 people were killed in firing by the forces of Maharaja outside the Srinagar Central Jail, where an in-camera trial of Abdul Qadeer, a freedom fighter, was being held. The crowd was protesting in central jail against the detention of Qadeer when the forces of Maharaja opened fire. (KNS)
