Woman disrupts Rahul’s rally, calls Mast Gul her leader “Nobody can silence me. I have every right to speak,” shouted a 40-year-old woman at the security staff and State officials. Everybody was at a loss to learn how the woman, with no security pass, had managed to intrude into the venue where Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi was present. With a male child holding her hand, she perched herself in the front row of the 600-odd Kashmiri women drawn from the Umeed self-help groups. The woman refused to budge an inch, and even resisted the security’s sustained efforts to move her to the rear of the pavilion. “I want to tell Mr. Gandhi that the Christians are attempting to convert us ; that the Army is killing and abusing us; that my leaders are none other than Abu Jundal Sahab and Mast Gul Sahab; that the Army broke Abu Jundal Sahab’s jaws when he was captured in Charar-e-Sharief,” she shouted non-stop. The woman almost wrestled with a Deputy Superintendent of Police of the CID security wing when he attempted to dislocate her physically under the glare of dozens of television cameras. Some women finally succeeded in moving her to a corner, but not before she had managed to disrupt half of Mr. Gandhi’s speech. When some journalists asked her name and her address in Kashmiri, she replied in English: “Raja, wife of Mushtaq Ahmad Ahangar.” Her address was not audible in the din. To some it appeared as if the woman had mugged up most of radical separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s statements. Mast Gul was the militant commander from North-West Frontier Province in Pakistan who had established strong base in the shrine town of Charar-e-Sharief in Budgam district. In an encounter between his guerrillas and the Army, the town, including one of Kashmir’s most revered shrines, was gutted on May 11, 1995. Though a number of his cadres got killed, Mast Gul escaped unharmed. He went back to Pakistan and never returned. Abu Jundal is among the few of Pakistani militants of the Hizbul Mujahideen who was caught alive and jailed.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:42:02 +0000
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