Srinagar, Oct 26: After medical students were booked under UAPA, Peoples Conference (PC) president Sajad Gani Lone Tuesday said that the punitive actions can worsen the disease.
Lone said, “I strongly disagree. If you think that they are not patriotic enough because they cheered for another team you should have the courage and the belief to wean them back if you think they have gone patriotically astray. Punitive actions won’t help. Have not helped in the past either.”
“We live in Kashmir and have to live with those who are ideologically opposed to us. But we are confident that it is a game of narratives, of discourses. And that we will win. We will be convinced about the goodness of our ideology. We will prevail. But that is if you allow us to,” he said.
“We don’t see anti-Indianism or pro-Pakistanism as an irreversible condition. It is at best a curable disease. Let us cure it. Allow us to cure it. Punitive actions can worsen the disease,” he added.
