Jammu, February 14: – Congress leaders from Jammu and Kashmir have condemned the assaulted attack on two congress leaders Anand Sharma and Salman Nizami in JNU Campus by ABVP and RSS activists.
In joint statement issued by Congress MLA’s and Senior leaders including G.M.Saroori, Haji Rashid, Mohammad Amin Bhatt, Taj Mohiudin, Tara Chand, Ghulam Nabi Monga, Ajaz Ahmed Khan, Usman Majeed, Gulzar Ahmed Wani, Asgar Ali Karbalaie, Jughal Kishore, Mumtaz Ahmed Khan, Chowdhary Akram, Ab. Majeed Wani, Naresh Gupta, Shabir Ahmed Khan, Ashok Kumar, Arun Singh Raju, Ab.Gani Khan, Sheikh Mujeeb, Adv Masood Choudhary, Karamat Malik, Imran Choudhary, Zulfkar Ali, Kadfeen Choudhary and others condemned the attack, saying the BJP was bringing a dangerous political culture in the country by unleashing its hoodlums and also termed the attack as ‘gunda gardi’ which they said was” condemnable and unacceptable”.
“Today is a black day for India`s democracy when Deputy Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Anand Sharma and Congress leader from J&K Salman Nizami were publicly attacked with sharp-edged weapon by government protected ABVP goons on the JNU campus.
The Congress leader’s were attacked by BJP backed, ABVP activists while participating at a protest meet held at Jawaharlal Nehru University against the police crackdown in the campus on Friday.
MLA G.M.Saroori said, this attack on Congress leaders is not acceptable to us. India is not this. Such attacks tarnish India’s image all over the world. India feels threatened today by these elements.
The prime minister should put his foot down and say this is not acceptable to us. The Congress leaders didn’t commit any fault. They went there to express solidarity with the protesting students. If you force people to silence and then say we are for making India beautiful, you are not making it so,” he said.
Mohammad Amin Bhat said, this is a deliberate attempt of frustrated BJP and RSS leaders to attack on Congress, and suppress those who expose BJP’s agenda just to divert their failure in the government.” Such attempts would not be tolerated and police should take stern action. All assaulters should be arrested.