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- Kashmir becomes great divider: Medha at receiving end
Telegraph | Muzaffar Raina | Srinagar, Oct. 16:
Kashmir, which India considers as the core of its unity in diversity, is turning out to be the Great Divider of the activists. Medha Patkar, one of the flag-bearers of the activist armada in the country, today termed Kashmir an integral part of India, leaving a section of her supporters embarrassed and fuming.
Patkar, who is also associated with Team Anna whose key member Prashant Bhushan was last week roughed up for apparently backing a plebiscite in Kashmir, was launching a campaign in support of Irom Sharmila, who has been on a marathon fast in Manipur to get a draconian law repealed.
The 10-day Save Irom Sharmila Jan Karwan Yatra from Srinagar to Imphal is aimed at mobilising people against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. The march will cover Bengal also and reach the Manipur capital on October 27.
The act is blamed for the disappearance of many people in Kashmir and the opposition to it has drawn some separatists also to Patkar’s campaign.
The articulation touched a raw nerve. Woman separatist leader Zamrooda Habib said Patkar’s remarks were regrettable. “Medha Patkar was an invitee like us and I personally had gone there to express my solidarity with Irom Sharmila, and not Patkar. If she (Patkar) subscribes to such views, she had better not spoken about the issue to avoid a controversy,” Habib said.
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