Hurriyat (G) on Friday denied reports about party Chairman Syed Ali Geelani nominating anyone as his successor. An Delhi based newspaper Thursday reported that Geelani’s deteriorating health has sent ripples through political circles in Kashmir, and was likely to pave the way for more ‘hardcore elements’ in his outfit, Tehreek Hurriyat, to take over in the future and create more trouble for the establishments in Srinagar as well as New Delhi than Geelani ever did. In a statement issued here, a party spokesman said that Tehreek-e-Hurriyat (a constituent in Hurriyat (G))was an ideological and structured organization which doesn’t only reject the successor theory but it terms this type of nominations as an undemocratic and unprincipled acts. “The news report regarding to the nomination of successor as baseless and mischievous acts, Our party is going to take legal action against the newspaper and its reporter and for this, the consultation of many senior lawyers of Srinagar High Court and legal experts has been sought in this regard,” he added. He further said that neither Geelani has any concept or idea of any successor nor his son was interested in it. “Tehreek-e-Hurriyat is an ideological organization, where every act is done with the proper consultation of its executive body and it does not follow any type of dictatorship system. Since Geelani son does not even have any basic membership in Tehreek-e-Hurriyat so there is no question of his nomination as successor,” he added. “Ghulam Nabi Sumji and Masrat Aalam Bhat are the leaders of Muslim Conference and Muslim League respectively and both of them are although respectable and great personalities on the forefront of this struggle but they neither have any organizational relationship nor they hold any membership with the Tehreek-e-Hurriyat,” he added. He said that party strongly rejected the theory of news reporter that in 2010, Geelani had any confrontation with Mohammad Ashraf Sehraie and Masrat Aalam Sahab. He said that the organizations of both the leaders (Sehraie and Masrat) were the constituents of Hurriyat (G) and this forum has a set policy regarding the freedom struggle of Kashmir.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:56:54 +0000