I am not Indian- says Syed Abdul Rahman Geelani

30th October 2010 Issue


I am not Indian- says Syed Abdul Rahman Geelani

Strong protest by ABVP & BJYM





KOLKATA, 30 OCT: After Kashmiri separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani and author Arundhati Roy got heckled for their alleged secessionist remarks at a seminar in New Delhi last week, it was the turn of Delhi University professor Syed Ali Shah Geelani in Kolkata on Saturday. After the seminar in New Delhi demanding `Azadi` for Kashmir, a similar seminar also titled `Azadi` was organized at Vivekananda Hall in Jadavpur University today (30th October 2010) by a Maoist student group called UDSF (United Students Democratic Front) with the notorious secessionist and accused in Parliament Attack case, S.A.S. Geelani as the main speaker.

At the outset of the seminar, a speaker Mr. Siddhartha Guha Roy gave a speech in which he harped on the so-called `independent` history of Kashmir and asserted that Kashmir should be separated from India. All over the venue, posters and banners put up by the organizers openly demanded `Azadi` for Kashmir.

When a member of the audience Mr. Arun Shaw asked the speaker a question about the role of a lion hearted nationalist leader, Dr.Shyamaprasad Mukherjee, in integrating Kashmir with the rest of India, the Maoist organizers suddenly rushed towards him and started an unprovoked physical attack on him. There soon started a free for all with the organizers using sticks and rods which they had stocked beforehand for an obviously pre-planned attack, to beat up all the patriotic members of the audience mostly ABVP(Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad) and BJYM (Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha) activists who had gathered there in large numbers.

Some of the ABVP & BJYM activists, shouted slogans, "Go back Geelani! This is no place for a Pakistani agent!". They waved black flags and later went on a dharna outside the university campus. They said the seminar participants had claimed of “a Kashmir that did not belong to India”. This is nothing but an open “Hate Campaign” against India.

In this sudden and brutal attack amidst anti-national slogans and obscenities hurled at the patriotic members of the audience by the organizers comprising some notorious Maoists elements like Debolina Chakraborty, who was recently named by the West Bengal police as a collaborator in the Maoist atrocities in West Bengal. Many ABVP and BJYM activists were grievously injured.

After this attack ABVP and BJYM activists organized a road block in front of the University Gate blocking a main arterial road for over an hour in protest against the brutal attack and the anti-national seditious speeches at the seminar. It is significant that members of the public joined the blockade in large numbers when they saw the issue, despite being inconvenienced by the blockade.

ABVP has submitted a police complaint in Jadavpore Police Station demanding the arrest and legal proceedings against the organizers of the secessionist and seditious seminar along with all those involved in the brutal physical attack including Debolina Chakraborty and her gang.

ABVP state President Prof.Rabi Ranjan Sen demands that the organizers be booked on grounds of sedition as well as grievous assault. ABVP also demands that an enquiry should be conducted against the authorities of Jadavpur University as to how they granted permission to hold an anti-national and seditious seminar titled `Azadi` within the University campus, where posters openly advocating `Azadi for Kashmir. Who have allowed such posters to be put up all over the venue and a notorious and known anti-national person like Geelani, accused in the Parliament attack case and against whom an FIR has already been filed for his seditious speech in the LTG Auditorium, New Delhi on 21st October, was allowed to visit the campus and speak against the unity and integrity of India.