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09-16-2016, 04:50 PM
SRINAGAR: A prominent pro-India Kashmiri politician resigned Thursday from India's Parliament and from his regional party to protest a government *****down in Kashmir that prevented people from offering Eid prayers for the first time in the troubled region.
Tariq Hameed Karra, a founding member of the People's Democratic Party, said he quit to express his anger over the "brutal policy'" followed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government and the acquiescence of his party, a coalition partner, says a report published on www.heraldonline.com on Thursday.
His decision is a setback for his party in Indian Held Kashmir, which has been wracked by massive protests for the past two months following the killing of a popular rebel leader. More than 80 people have been killed and thousands wounded, mostly by government forces firing bullets and shotgun pellets to quell the protests.
"For the first time in history, the people of Kashmir were **t allowed to offer Eid prayers. Certain shrines and even the Grand Mosque were locked," Karra told reporters Thursday in Srinagar, the main city in the region. "Kashmiri blood is being spilled on the walls, lanes and drains of the valley,'" he said.
He accused the Indian government of brutality and insensitivity toward Kashmir. Early this month, protesters set fire to the house of Nazir Laway, a local lawmaker in south Kashmir. The governing People's Democratic Party is **w left with two lawmakers in India's Parliament representing the region. "Though I was all along feeling suffocated" by his party's alliance with Modi's party, "my conscience was shaken during the last two months," Karra said.
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Tariq Hameed Karra, a founding member of the People's Democratic Party, said he quit to express his anger over the "brutal policy'" followed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government and the acquiescence of his party, a coalition partner, says a report published on www.heraldonline.com on Thursday.
His decision is a setback for his party in Indian Held Kashmir, which has been wracked by massive protests for the past two months following the killing of a popular rebel leader. More than 80 people have been killed and thousands wounded, mostly by government forces firing bullets and shotgun pellets to quell the protests.
"For the first time in history, the people of Kashmir were **t allowed to offer Eid prayers. Certain shrines and even the Grand Mosque were locked," Karra told reporters Thursday in Srinagar, the main city in the region. "Kashmiri blood is being spilled on the walls, lanes and drains of the valley,'" he said.
He accused the Indian government of brutality and insensitivity toward Kashmir. Early this month, protesters set fire to the house of Nazir Laway, a local lawmaker in south Kashmir. The governing People's Democratic Party is **w left with two lawmakers in India's Parliament representing the region. "Though I was all along feeling suffocated" by his party's alliance with Modi's party, "my conscience was shaken during the last two months," Karra said.
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