The Jammu and Kashmir Police have prohibited a number of mainstream political events from visiting the 13-July-1931 martyrs’ graveyard and haven’t allowed any congregational prayers on the loss of life anniversary of the 1931 martyrs within the Naqashband Sahib space of Srinagar.
Leaders of the Apni Social gathering, together with its President Altaf Bukhari, and leaders of the Nationwide Convention have been stopped by the police from visiting the martyrs’ graveyard in Naqashband Sahib, Srinagar, to pay homage to the martyrs of July 13, 1931. The police prevented them from shifting ahead as quickly as they left the social gathering’s Sheikh Bagh workplace to go to the graveyard. The leaders later held Fateh prayers on the highway close to Sheikh Bagh, and Nationwide Convention leaders have been stopped whereas they have been attempting to come back out from the social gathering headquarters, Nawai Subha advanced.
Former Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, additionally claimed that their residence gates have been closed, and so they and lots of social gathering members weren’t allowed to go to the martyrs’ graveyard. Abdullah wrote on social media, stating, “One other 13th July, Martyr’s Day, one other spherical of locked gates & police excesses to cease folks from paying homage to those that sacrificed their lives to determine a simply, truthful & democratic regime in J&Ok.”
Mehbooba Mufti wrote on X, “The gates of my home have been locked up but once more to stop me from visiting Mazar e Shuhada – a permanent image of Kashmir’s resistance & resilience towards authoritarianism, oppression & injustice. The sacrifices of our martyrs are a testomony that the spirit of Kashmiris can’t be crushed. Right this moment, even observing it in remembrance of the protesters martyred on today has been criminalized. On fifth August 2019, J&Ok was dismembered, disempowered & stripped of all the pieces that was sacrosanct for us. They intend to erase every one in every of our collective recollections. However such assaults will solely strengthen our dedication to proceed the battle for our rights & dignity.”
On July 13, 1931, a number of Kashmiri folks have been killed by the police of Maharaja Hari Singh for assembling exterior the Central Jail Srinagar, demanding the discharge of a prisoner arrested by Maharaja Hari Singh’s administration on prices of sedition. Since then, the day had been noticed as Martyrs’ Day by the Jammu and Kashmir authorities till 2019.
Following the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, the BJP authorities not solely eliminated the federal government vacation on Martyrs’ Day but in addition discontinued the apply of congregational prayers on the martyrs’ graveyard. This transfer is strongly opposed by Kashmir-centric mainstream political leaders and their supporters, who see it as an try to alter the political discourse of Jammu and Kashmir.
