JRL condemns Mehbooba’s statement, says resilience of Kashmiris forced Centre to change policy

Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) on Monday expressed “deep resentment and condemnation” at the statement of Mehbooba Mufti for “mocking at and insulting” people of Kashmir and their supreme sacrifices by calling them “agitators first and beggars later.”
JRL comprising Syed Ali Geelani ,Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik said, in a statement: ‘Love for chair has completely blinded her and her ilk of opportunists to see what havoc they have wreaked upon the people of Kashmir since their alliance with the BJP.”
JRL said it is the integrity and tremendous resilience of the Kashmiri people that despite being no match for India in terms of population and resources it is giving such a “stiff resistance to occupation to achieve its fundamental political rights as a nation.”
JRL said that people of Kashmir bore the brunt of all these extreme repressive measures with such bravery and resilience that GOI was compelled to relook at its policy on Kashmir.
“No segments of society succumbed to this tremendous pressure including our traders and business community despite the fact that they were severely affected by the policy of revenge and punishment to which the local quislings were willing partners or mute spectators.”
JRL also expressed surprise and dismay that some traders and members of the business community played into the hands of the collaborators and gave them an opportunity to insult the supreme sacrifices offered by the nation.
JRL asked all segments of society that as collective custodians of the sacrifices of the nation to be cautious and “refrain from providing any opportunity to these collaborators to insult and mock us and to expect no help from them as has been proven time and again.”
JRl said that people of Kashmir do not need the largess of GOI to survive as Mehbooba Mufti suggests and are no beggars.
“Once we are our own masters. Our resources both human and natural are enough to make us prosper.”