{"id":12939,"date":"2018-11-09T06:37:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T01:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=12939"},"modified":"2018-11-09T06:37:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T01:07:57","slug":"jrl-may-end-its-hartal-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=12939","title":{"rendered":"JRL may end its hartal politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong><\/i><i> JRL may end its hartal politics The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik are mulling to shun the two-decade practice of calling strikes after every untoward incident.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Sources said the JRL is thinking about replacing the shutdowns with protests similar to ones carried against the proposal to repeal Article 35-A of the constitution.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>They said during the ongoing consultation with all sections of the society that include religious organisations, lawyers, traders, transporters, employees, academicians, civil society members, it was agreed that continuous hartals were not serving any purpose to stop the killing spree in the Valley.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Sources said, according to the new strategy, on the JRL call, different organisation would carry out a protest on a particular day across the Valley to pressurise the government to stop the \u201ckilling of civilians\u201d in Kashmir.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>\u201cThe protests will be similar to ones that were carried during the protests against the attempts to abrogate the special status of Jammu Kashmir. Every day different sectors like transporters, traders, bar association, civil society, shikara owners, hoteliers will carry out protest rallies in various parts of the Valley,\u201d sources said.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>JRL has often come under severe criticism of the public for not finding any alternative to hartal calls that badly impacts the State\u2019s economy.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>On October 30, in a meeting held at Geelani\u2019s Hyderpora residence, the three leaders had a thorough discussion on the prevailing situation in Kashmir.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Afterward, they announced they were going to have a wide-range consultation with all sections of the society to frame a comprehensive joint strategy against \u201cIndian suppression\u201d, which they said has reached \u201cbeyond tolerable levels\u201d.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Sources said all the organisations that held meetings with the JRL for the last few days were on a common ground that the Hurriyat leaders should shun the idea of calling strike calls after every untoward incident and instead devise a well-thought out protest calendar.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>\u201cAll the organisations have assured the leadership that they will religiously follow their protest calls and do their bit to highlight the deteriorating condition of human rights in the Valley,\u201d the sources said.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>They said apart from protest calls, JRL would also reach out to the international community by writing to all the High Commissioners to India to apprise them about the human rights violation in Kashmir.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><strong>Reported The Rising Kashmir<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: JRL may end its hartal politics The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik are mulling to shun the two-decade practice of calling strikes after every untoward incident. Sources said the JRL is thinking about replacing the shutdowns with protests similar to ones carried against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}