{"id":9222,"date":"2017-04-03T09:33:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T04:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=9222"},"modified":"2017-04-03T09:33:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T04:03:02","slug":"roads-tunnels-cant-make-a-nation-change-its-track-yasin-malik-tells-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=9222","title":{"rendered":"Roads, tunnels can\u2019t make a nation change its track: Yasin Malik Tells Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>If tunnels and roads would have been a substitute to freedom and dignity, then British should have never left India as it had developed Indian infrastructure enormously.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Those who \u2018sided with British\u2019 can never understand the ethos of freedom struggle<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Muhammad Yasin Malik on Sunday said roads and tunnels cannot make a nation change its track.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf tunnels and roads would have been a substitute to freedom and dignity, then British should have never left India as it had developed Indian infrastructure enormously. People who sided with British during Indian freedom struggle can never understand the ethos of freedom struggle and psyche of freedom lovers,\u201d Malik, according to party statement, said reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s assertions at Udhampur today.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe statement of Indian Prime Minister that \u2018Kashmiris should choose between terrorism and tourism and that youth striving for freedom are misguided\u2019 is absurd. British ruled India for more than 200 years and during that period they developed Indian infrastructure enormously. It was British who developed Indian railway system and irrigation canals that are until now benefitting whole subcontinent and if the standards of Modi Ji were to be applied then British should never have left Indian neither should have Gandhi, Nehru, Subash Chander Bose, Baghat Singh and Moulana Azad strived for the freedom of India,\u201d Malik said. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOur reply to Modi Ji is the same that was given by Gandhi ji to a British envoy who had posed same type of question to him that how can poor Indian survive independently, Gandhi had replied that he would prefer a non-competent poor independent rule over a competent and wealthy forcibly controlled nation,\u201d he said. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cModi Ji should understand that roads and tunnels cannot make a nation change its track neither can intimidations and oppressions deter a nation that has resolved to end forcible control from perusing its righteous path. Kashmiri youth are most learned and competent enough to compete with the rest of the world but Indian oppression unleashed against them has deprived them a chance to excel,\u201d Malik added.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If tunnels and roads would have been a substitute to freedom and dignity, then British should have never left India as it had developed Indian infrastructure enormously. Those who \u2018sided with British\u2019 can never understand the ethos of freedom struggle Srinagar: Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Muhammad Yasin Malik on Sunday said roads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9222","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\/9222","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=9222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9222\/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=9222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}