This is Uttarakhand not Syria pupils safe here

  • | Thursday | 21st February, 2019

DEHRADUN: Dismissing reports of alleged harassment of Kashmiri students in the city, state tourism minister Satpal Maharaj on Wednesday said that “Uttarakhand was not Syria” so there was no need for anybody to feel unsafe here. Maharaj also demanded an FIR against Rajya Sabha MP from People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Fayaz Ahmed Mir for taking back students from Jammu & Kashmir. Maharaj claimed that Mir had met Kashmiri students on Tuesday in Dehradun and arranged two buses to carry around 100 students back to Kashmir.“Who will take responsibility if something happens to these students? “It’s being projected as if students are being harassed. Who made him (Mir) the guardian of these students and who authorized him to take the students back?” said Maharaj.The minister added that college authorities should not have allowed students to leave.

DEHRADUN: Dismissing reports of alleged harassment of Kashmiri students in the city, state tourism minister Satpal Maharaj on Wednesday said that “Uttarakhand was not Syria” so there was no need for anybody to feel unsafe here. Maharaj also demanded an FIR against Rajya Sabha MP from People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Fayaz Ahmed Mir for taking back students from Jammu & Kashmir. Maharaj claimed that Mir had met Kashmiri students on Tuesday in Dehradun and arranged two buses to carry around 100 students back to Kashmir.“Who will take responsibility if something happens to these students? Who made him (Mir) the guardian of these students and who authorized him to take the students back?” said Maharaj.The minister added that college authorities should not have allowed students to leave. “It’s being projected as if students are being harassed. None of the Kashmiri students have been harassed or attacked.”TOI had reported on February 16 that Kashmiri students had alleged that 12 students from their community were beaten up by right-wing groups following the Pulwama attack.Meanwhile, SSP (Dehradun) Nivedita Kukreti said that police had not received any complaint from the students that they were taken to Kashmir against their will.

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