Hoardings in Meerut ask Kashmiris to leave UP
MEERUT/NEW DELHI: Hoardings, attributed to controversial outfit ‘Uttar Pradesh Nav Nirman Sena’, have on Thursday appeared in Meerut in Western Uttar Pradesh, asking ‘stone-throwing’ Kashmiri’s to leave the state.
MEERUT/NEW DELHI: Hoardings attributed to controversial outfit ‘Uttar Pradesh Nav Nirman Sena’ have appeared in Meerut, asking ‘stone-throwing’ Kashmiris to leave the state. This has prompted the police to direct the organisation to remove them “immediately”.
‘Kashmiriyon UP chhodo warna… (Kashmiris leave UP or else...) Boycott those Kashmiris who pelt Indian Army with stones,’ read a hoarding on a road bearing the name of the organisation’s chief Amit Jani.
The hoardings assume significance at a time when Kashmir Valley is witnessing a volatile situation after a number of clips, including the one showing a man tied to a military jeep as a human shield against stone-throwers, went viral and picked up by both national and international media.
On Wednesday, a group of Kashmiri students at Mewar university in Rajasthan were allegedly called terrorists and beaten up by locals, purportedly upset over soldiers being targeted by stone-throwers in the strife-torn border state.
“I have asked Amit Jani to remove the hoardings immediately or face a case,” said Alok Priyadarshi, SP (city), Meerut. Though the SP quoted Jani saying that the activists put up hoardings without his knowledge, the self-styled leader confessed to have installed dozens of such hoardings across the city.
“We have put up these hoardings along the stretch of Delhi-Dehradun road passing through Meerut on NH-58 to send out a message against those who ‘disrespect Army’ and ‘sympathise with Kashmir-based separatists. We don’t want our educational institutions to develop feelings against Army,” he said. Jani, 31, a resident of Janikhurd village in Meerut, is infamous for creating controversies to allegedly seek publicity. Also known as Amit Agarwal and Amit Gupta, Jani shot to infamy first in 2012 when he was accused of vandalising a statue of BSP chief at one of the memorials in Lucknow.
SP ( City) Alok Priyadarshi said a case was being registered against Jani in Partapur police station for spreading hatred and he would be arrested.