Watch your words

Mudasir Majeed Peer This is in reference to recent inciting remarks made by the BJP state party president Ashoka Khujuria in which he demanded the immediate removal of VC Kashmir University Mr. Riyaz Punjabi for allowing the veteran Hurriyat separatist leader Mr. S A Geelani into KU campus and rendering him the opportunity to address the students there. One can mock on Mr. Khujuria’s pungent remarks. Mr. Khujuria remains tight-lipped when VHP, RSS and Bajrang Dal leaders visit the Jammu University campus and use the university campus for the promotion and propagation of their party ideologies. Geelani Sahib’s purpose to visit the campus wasn’t to propagate any ideology or any political thought but to meet the students and made them aware about their responsibilities toward their nation and society. Mr. Khujuria gets infuriated as he and his party deems him a threat. I must remind Mr. Khujuria that Geelani Sahib is not associated with any terrorist outfit and his address to the student was to make them aware about their rights and religion obligations. He wasn’t on the mission to annihilate any community and he wasn’t there to incite the communal frenzy. He is a true follower of his religion and true believer in the principles of Islam. His address to the students was to make them visualise their goals. He wasn’t there to spoil the academic environment of university. Mr. Khujuria, Geelani Sahib is a noble soul and possesses a crystal clear vision. And more importantly he is the believer of non-violence. He is not like the BJP, VHP or Bajrang Dal leaders who are always hell-bent on spreading and escalating communal violence and always giving rise to communal flames and disrupting the national peace. I suggest Mr. Khujuria not repeat such vicious, worthless and condemnable remarks again and not to target through these venomous remarks a person who is heading the state highest state of learning. Mr Riyaz Punjabi has devoted his life for the upliftment and betterment of education and has refurbished the whole academic infrastructure of university. Feedback at pir.mudasir@gmail.com