Srinagar, Jul 18 (PTI) Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq claimed to have been placed under house detention for the second consecutive Friday.
“For second consecutive Friday I remain under house detention – with every lane and by-lane to my residence barricaded, causing inconvenience to the entire neighbourhood,” Mirwaiz said in a post on X.
The Hurriyat leader was placed under house arrest on July 11, two days ahead of the July 13 commemoration function for martyrs of 1931.
“Let me make it clear to the rulers, the memory of our martyrs cannot be regulated by them. It resides in our hearts. Facts and history cannot be erased by lockdowns and barring people from visiting the martyrs graveyards or stopping me from going to Jama Masjid on Fridays, not by appeasing narratives or shameful communal distortions, if it resides in the collective memory of people, which it does,” he said.
“The Marty’s of July 13 1931 were the frontrunners of the political movement in Kashmir; a people’s just struggle against oppression. They are and will remain our inspiration,” he added.
July 13 is commemorated as ‘Martyrs Day’ in Jammu and Kashmir as a tribute to 22 people killed by the Dogra army outside Srinagar’s central jail in 1931. The L-G administration had dropped the day from the list of gazetted holidays in 2020. PTI MIJ DV DV
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