During an election rally at Devsar in south Kashmir’s Kulgam on Thursday, Farooq had said: “I salute the resilience of JKLF chairman Yasin Malik, who has preferred death over bowing before New Delhi… Despite being severely ill, Yasin is languishing in jail these days because he is advocating dialogue with India but is not willing to sell self-respect of Kashmiris… I congratulate him for that.”
In response to Farooq’s statements, Sajjad said he was not surprised by the former CM’s utterly disdainful hypocrisy but was pained by the audaciousness of his utterances.
Sajjad said: “Farooq Abdullah is nothing but a shameless elite exhorting
the proletariat to sacrifice their lives while his family enjoys
monarchical concessions… Do you really have the nerve to be talking
about Yasin Malik? Can you jog your memory a bit and recall that you as
chief minister in 1987 chased a young rebellious Yasin Malik from being a
rebel within the political system to picking up arms? Was it not you as
CM who imprisoned him before and after 1987 elections? Was it not you
as CM who ordered his third-degree torture and tortured him so badly
that his heart ailment worsened? Was it not you as CM who put a bounty
of a few lakhs on his head? Have you forgotten all that? And 32 years
later, you are all praise for Yasin Malik and congratulating him for
going on a hunger strike and his readiness to sacrifice his life.
If you
are so much in love with what Yasin Malik is doing, why don’t you
suggest the same to your son Omar Abdullah? Why doesn’t he go on a
hunger strike and render a sacrifice as you suggest for Yasin Malik? Or
are sacrifices only meant for other people’s sons?”
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