Politics
Mirwaiz welcomes Shah Faesal’s resignation, hopes ‘his outrage guides his choice of politics’
Srinagar: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the Chairman of the Hurriyat (M) has welcomed the resignation of IAS topper Shah Faesal and added that his ‘outrage and sentiment that Kashmiri Lives matter’ guides his choice of politics.
In a tweet, Mirwaiz said:
Welcome the stand to resign by @ShahFaesal to protest unabated killing of Kashmiris by GOI. Hope his outrage over killings and his sentiment that #KashmiriLivesMatter guide his choice of politics…
— Mirwaiz Umar Farooq (@MirwaizKashmir) January 9, 2019
and gets reflected in representing his people’s collective deep driving desire of right to self-determination and their relentless struggle and sacrifice in achieving it – also the reason behind killings and repression on them by the state.
— Mirwaiz Umar Farooq (@MirwaizKashmir) January 9, 2019
Earlier, Shah Faesal, said that he took the step to protest against the ‘unabated killings and lack of political outreach from New Delhi.’
In a Facebook post, Faesal said, “To protest against the unabated killings in Kashmir, and lack of any sincere reach-out from the Union Government; the marginalization and invisiblization of around 200 million Indian Muslims at the hands of Hindutva forces reducing them to second-class citizens; insidious attacks on the special identity of the J&K State and growing culture of intolerance and hate in the mainland India in the name of hypernationalism, I have decided to resign from Indian Administrative Service.”
Faesal said he wished to remind the regime of the day that subversion of public institutions like RBI, CBI and NIA has the potential to decimate the Constitutional edifice of this Country and it needs to be stopped.
“I wish to reiterate that voices of reason in this country cannot be muzzled for long and the environment of siege will need to end if we wish to usher in true democracy,” he said his Facebook post.
Meanwhile, National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah welcomed him into the political fold.
