On first day of secretariat AIP carries protest march

Nirmal Singh faces strong plebiscite slogans, misses guard of honour

Er. Rasheed and dozens arrested

Srinagar 08 May: Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh had to face hard hitting slogans and huge embossment near Magharmal Bagh today when his cavalcade was Gharawed by hundreds of AIP protestors and prevented from entering civil secretariat. Before police could manage safe passage to Dy. CM he had to bear with huge plebiscite and anti-India slogans. 

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Defying strict police restrictions hundreds today joined AIP’s march to Gharaw Civil Secretariat. Protestors were holding play cards, banners and black flags in their hands and were raising strong slogans against use of continuous brutal force against student and general masses in every nook corner of state and reducing presence of bureaucrats and other top officers belonging to majority community in civil and police administration to nominal level. 

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However after marching towards secretariat, security forces used force to prevent march from moving to secretariat. Police arrested dozens including Er. Rasheed, Inam-u-Nabi and Dr. Bari Nayak and lodged them at Shaheed Gunj and Raj Bagh Police stations.

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Police ruthlessly dragged Er. Rasheed and others and bundled them in police vehicles. While talking to media before being arrested Er. Rasheed said that New Secretariat has become graveyard of aspirations of majority community and every notorious move by New Delhi is disempowering the majority community. He said “To protect the unique identity of the state all non state subject officers of all cedars have to be deputed back to the central services or their respective states. Banning thirty four TV channels just for the reason that most of them are preaching Islamic teachings is yet another proof that Indian is heading fast towards becoming a radical Hindu fascist state. Although civil secretariat started it’s functioning in Srinagar but it is going to yield nothing except huge traffic Jams and hatching conspiracies against the majority community”.

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Er. Rasheed also condemned rude behaviour a Senior Police Officer with the journalist and added that security agencies are at war with the masses.