Geelani to launch agitation in Kashmir against Amarnath Shrine board

Hard-line Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Monday threatened of an agitation and to mobilize public against the “evil designs of Amarnath Shrine Board”, a day after the separatist amalgams’ “awareness seminar on the working of shrine board” was thwarted by the administration.
While presiding over the meeting of executive council of the amalgam, Geelani said that “Delhi is ruling Kashmir and Omar Abdullah is obeying its orders like an employee.”
Geelani said the ‘pressure tactics’ will not deter them. “We will organize our agitation in any way and mobilize public against the evil designs of Amarnath Shrine Board. We will continue to reach out to various sections of society including intellectuals, lawyers, traders, transporters, students,” he said.
The statement informed that the amalgam has decided to reach each household if needed.
“Fifty times more yatries come to Kashmir as compared to the past. Our demand is that the number of yatries be contained and the administration of the Shrine Board handed over to local Pandits,” the statement read.
Lashing out at Omar Abdullah led government saying that the Chief Minister has ‘started a war against its own state, a statement of the Hurriyat strongly criticized the “suppressive measures of administration”.
Quoting Syed Ali Geelani, the spokesman castigated the “ high-handedness of state administration” and said that they are “trying to create a political vacuum and are bent upon to disturb the system so that pro-freedom parties and their politics do not prevail”.

(Free Press kashmir)