“People have a right to choose their heroes. And the martyrs are heroes for the people of Kashmir. Why be in denial and why on earth would a non-resident government need to meddle in it? Actually believing that a government will decide on what has been historically heroic and who are the historical heroes is an unambiguous sign of despotism,” he said.Senior NC leader and Srinagar MP Aga Ruhullah in a post on X said, “The moral compass of this supposed to be a democratic nation has gone so much wrong under this BJP regime, that it is now scared of the (13th July) martyrs in graves who gave their lives in the struggle against the ruthless monarchy and autocracy. Martyrs who gave their blood for freedom and human dignity.”“The police and administration which used to pay homage to those brave hearts is now told to block the ways heading towards that graveyard and put locks on the doors of those who want to go and pay their respect to those heroes. This not only is a disrespect to the idea of freedom and democracy, but it also is a huge and ugly shift from the values over which this nation was founded,” the MP said.
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