Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani has warned of serious consequences if the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) enforces an economic blockade of Kashmir.
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He said the business community of the Valley supported amending the law to allow consumption of beef in the state. The BJP also moved a bill in the Assembly to make cow slaughter punishable with death.
Barrister Abdul Majeed Trumbo in his statement issued in Srinagar said that the people of Kashmir would never succumb to any pressure and no power on earth could deter them from pursuing the norms regarding forbidden and permitted food items laid by Islam.
Hurriyat (G) chairman, however, cautioned that if the communal forces enforced any type of economic blockade to Kashmir, a public movement will be started against it and the people will protest this “act of terrorism” on roads and will aware the worldwide community about the serious situation of Kashmir. Kashmir is totally dependent on supplies via the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway.
President of Kashmir Traders and Manufactures Federation (KTMF), Yasin Khan said,”We want to send a clear message to our counterparts in Jammu to explain their position on the VHP statement”.
Reacting to the VHP’s economic blockade threat, Kashmir’s business community has hit back. “This is the only way left for Kashmiris due to the Indian control through which they trade and communicate with the rest of the world and the communal people want to block that route too”.
The traders of J&K and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir (PcK) are allowed to do trade via Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route for four days a week.
“VHP and its ilk should try to comprehend that constitutional matters can not be sorted out on streets and through threats of economic blockades or hooliganism”.
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“We have been and will continue to slaughter cows and other bovine animals, let VHP and other fascist parties do whatever they can”, Nayeem Khan maintained.
