Spiritual guru and Art of Living (AOL) founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar offered to rebuild 27 burnt School to save the education of around 4500 students in Kashmir. He said the people of Kashmir want peace and emphasized that a solution to the Kashmir problem can only come from Kashmir.
“Solution to Kashmir (issue) will only come from Kashmiris themselves. They have to bring out the solution themselves. We are creating this forum for such pragmatic thinking and progressive ideas to make the country stronger,” he said after the launch of South Asian Forum For Peace here.
Asserting that the conflict in Kashmir has become a business for some people due to this, innocent people are suffering, he said. People are affrading themselves from opening their mouth due to a threat of guns. 90 percent of the people want peace and development but their voice is being silenced.”
People together can discuss for peace and progress in Kashmir
Many people took part in the conference which included former militants, stone-pelters, and victim of militancy, various stake holders and it was organized by AOL to promote peace in Kashmir.
The forum has been formed to take opinions of people by holding debates, discussion for peace, progress and development so that a new vivid ideology can be constructed. I hope that it will bring some fruitful outcomes, he said.
He further said people who are moving with stones and talking peace, they all will have to be together for the peace initiative. Spiritual guru said that the people who were involved in stone pelting, who were in militancy and in drug addiction have taken part in the conference.
Neither the media is projecting these nor are others ignoring them. They are ignored people who need a perfect platform for them to raise their voices, he said.
Some elements are provoking people for riots
Some elements are in Kashmir provoking people as the conflict has become an investment for them, hence they don’t want to put an end to it. People have to come forward and isolate those anti-social elements.
The AOL Chief said I am working for peace in Kashmir. We don’t want to become a prisoner of any ideology but create a new ideology to move forward in the direction of peace. There is a need to make a roadmap for achieving a short term goal and a long term plan and for this; we will hold such conferences in Kashmir.
Sri Sir Ravi Shankar said a drug is the biggest problem in the Kashmir. The youth of the Kashmir is drug addicted and we should try to bring them out from this curse.
When asked about India-Pakistan tensions, especially on the mutilation of a jawan’s body and killing of three soldiers in an offensive by Pakistan, he said it is condemnable and said that people are treating like this by engineering human rights violation.
Demonetisation is a great step of Modi to curb black money
Intellectuals should come forward to discontinue human right violation or any type of brutalities where they are taking place. On Demonetization action taken by the government, he said the move is actually a brave decision of the government and it would surely weed out corruption, black money, terrorism and drug addiction. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar further said praising PM Modi that he has taken the right step by finding out what is there in the minds of the people by launching the 10 question in his app.
