APHC leader asks people to observe Black Day on Indian Republic Day on January 26.
Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai Chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir made this appeal.
The leader from occupied Kashmir belongs to All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC).
APHC leader asks people
He asked the people in IOJK to observe Indian Republic Day, the 26th January, as Black Day.
In a statement in Srinagar, he said that India claims itself as the largest democracy of the world. But he poinited to its democratic credentials stand badly exposed in occupied Kashmir.
Sehrai further said that India is denying all the democratic rights to the Kashmiri people for the last over 72 years.
Meanwhile, senior Hurriyat leader, Professor Abdul Ghani Butt also issued a statement in Srinagar.
He deplored that on one hand, India celebrated its Republic Day on 26th January while on the other it has deprived the Kashmiris of their inalienable right.
He slammed India for denying self-determination right for the past over seven decades.
The Imam of Srinagar’s historic Jamia Masjid, Syed Ahmed Naqshbandi, addressed Juma congregation today.
He supported the strike call which Mirwaiz Umar Farooq-led Hurriyat forum gave to protest Indian Republic Day.
The visiting Indian ministers received cold response from people to their outreach programme.