Hurriyat's Hypocrisy: Separatist Movement Devoured Kashmir, Leaders Remained Insulated

• Mirwaiz Umar Farooq's complaint about his 'Hurriyat Chairman' designation on X is deemed hypocritical, given the organization's history of disrupting Kashmir.
• The Hurriyat Conference, since the 1990s, fused secessionist politics with violence, destroying education, normalising shutdowns, and pushing youth towards militancy.
• Hurriyat's strategy relied on cyclical disruption, using protests, shutdowns, and violence, while its leaders' children studied abroad, insulated from the chaos.
• Post-Article 370 abrogation, Kashmir shows signs of normalcy in education and tourism, reflecting a quiet rejection of separatist politics by the people.
• The article argues Kashmir needs leaders who acknowledge past failures and build peace, rather than recycling utopian ideologies that brought only grief.

Why It Matters: Hurriyat's separatist politics devastated Kashmir while its leaders remained insulated, a hypocrisy now being rejected.