VOICES OF dissent against strikes in Kashmir have begun to emerge as a group of students and parents after breaking their silence against the continuous spell of strikes held a protest march at Press Enclave Srinagar on Tuesday.
Carrying placards like "Education is our birth right’’, ``We want freedom from illiteracy, poverty and exploitation’’, ``Please allow us to go back to schools’’, the students appealed the civil society to impress upon the separatists to exempt schools from strikes.
The parents of the students while talking to media men said that students of Kashmir were suffering for no fault of theirs . `` We have no option but to protests. Please allow us to go to schools.”, some of the students were heard saying with their moist eyes.
The protesting parents said ``the rich including separatists and mainstream leaders have sent their children to outside Kashmir for education. What can a common man do in these circumstances’’, the parents rued.
The aggrieved parents said, “there was is a brewing resentment against these uncalled strikes and said these will soon explode and manifest in the streets of Srinagar and other districts. ``Time is not far away when the people who are playing with the sentiments of innocent children and teenagers have to pay huge price for their misdeeds. Kashmir can’t afford to be illiterate in whatever political dispensation.”, the students’ parents said.
Some of the parents said that they had complete details about the children of separatist and mainstream leaders who have sent their children outside state for studies in recent months only. “We aren’t demanding sky but education for our children. In the frenzy and madness of some people not only innocent blood is being shed on the streets but an environment of blindness and darkness is being perpetuated throughout Kashmir. This will lead us to a disaster,” an aggrieved parent said.
Some nursery and kindergarten students, who were part of the protest said, “for the last three months we aren’t being allowed to go to schools’’. What is our sin? Please save our future, they pleaded.
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