People of Kashmir can’t be suppressed: Apni Party

IIOJK: Apni Party President Altaf Bukhari, also a former minister, along with party leaders assembled at the party office at Sheikh Bagh area in Srinagar and tried to take out a protest march towards Civil Secretariat.

They were protesting against the draft proposals of the Delimitation Commission.  The Jammu and Kashmir police on Wednesday, however, foiled the protest march, when a posse of policemen stopped the protesters just outside the party office and did not allow them to move towards Lal Chowk.

Altaf Bukhari slammed the police’s action and said that unlike what’s claimed – that there’s freedom of speech and rights in Kashmir – that’s actually not the case as they are not allowed to protest peacefully. Bukhari said, “We don’t accept the Delimitation Commission’s proposal.

It’s ironical that they say there is freedom here. But what kind of freedom is this, what kind of democracy is this when we are not allowed to stage peaceful protest?” Bukhari also said that the media has been gagged and demanded that they “want freedom of the press”.

Rejecting the enquiry report of police on Hyderpora operation, Bukhari said, “In Hyderpora, an enquiry is still going on, but they have given clean chit. What type of enquiry is this? Already people of Jammu and Kashmir had little faith in these enquiries.

We demand that those killers be booked. How do we believe a police enquiry? I want to tell those in Dehli that people of Kashmir can’t be suppressed.”