[Reader-list] "Boycott call was a mistake" - Hurriyat leader Aga Syed Hassan

[Kshmendra Kaul]

"DAILY KASHMIR IMAGES"
 
Thursday, December 25, 2008
 
"Hurriyat boycott thermometer records wrong temperature"
 
"Aga Hassan says, boycott call was a mistake" 
 
Srinagar: As the final phase of elections came to an end here Wednesday, a senior Hurriyat leader, Aga Syed Hassan said that poll boycott call was a mistake and had been hurriedly made without taking into consideration the day today needs of the people here.

Ironically the Hurriyat decided to oppose its own boycott call after nearly 65 per cent voters had chosen to ignore it. Wiser by hindsight the separatist leaders appeared flawed in calculating the difference between political aspirations and exigencies of day today life. 

Executive member of Mirwaiz led Hurriyat Conference and a prominent Shia leader, Aga Syed Hassan told a local news agency KNS that the call for poll boycott was a step taken in hurry.

“Election boycott call was not a wise decision and it was taken in a hurry without having an eye on the repercussions,” KNS quoted Aga Syed as saying.

Stressing that separatists leaders were either arrested or put under house arrest and were not allowed to reach out to the people to convince them from staying away from the process, Aga Hassan said: “Having said that, I believe, the boycott call was a step taken in hurry by Hurriyat and the Coordination Committee.”

He said that Hurriyat has all along been advocating that elections and broader Kashmir issue should not be mingled together. 

He further said that people have their issues and problems which should not have been overlooked.

“Leaders can get themselves treated in very reputed private hospitals but the ordinary people need better medical facilities here and those were the issues for which they voted,” Aga Hassan said.

Aga suggested that Hurriyat and Coordination Committee should do some introspection and try to figure out that why people turned their back on them.   
 
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