Kashmir NCC cadet trolled over ‘azadi’, stone-pelting remarks

JAMMU: An NCC woman cadet from south Kashmir was trolled by Facebook users for her strong message to the youth of Jammu & Kashmir, urging them to shun stone pelting and azadi campaigns and to enjoy “real freedom” in India.

The video of her sound bite, taken by news portal News Review, went viral on Facebook and she was trolled for her comments on the social media site.

Later, News Review deleted the post, but reproduced it without showing her face on Monday evening.

Abuse flooded the comments section thereafter.

Some of the other women cadets from Kashmir, who are undergoing training at the National Cadet Corps (NCC) camp at Sainik school at Nagrota, echoed her views. “Stay away from stone pelting and azadi campaigns...,” one of them said.

A student of the government women’s degree college in Anantnag, on Monday said she was the only woman representing her college at the camp.

Many others wanted to join the camp, but were discouraged by their parents from doing so because of the troubled situation in south Kashmir.

“I want to tell the youth that the real azadi (freedom) is here. If you want azadi, it is here,” she said in the post and asked young Kashmiris to stay away from stone pelting and raising pro azadi slogans.

“Please don’t go towards bad things like protests, stone pelting or getting involved in sloganeering for azadi. Azadi is nothing. If you want azadi, it is here,” she said.