Jammu: Several organisations representing the nomadic Gujjar community have lodged strong protests against former Srinagar Mayor Junaid Azim Mattu for his “hate remarks” targeting reserved category communities.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the Gujjar Bakerwal Students Alliance, an organisation representing students from the nomadic community, filed a police complaint against Mattu at Rajouri police station, for “hate speech and incitement against reserved category communities.”
In the complaint, the alliance president Advocate Sakib Choudhary said that Mattu had made “serious and repeated instances of hate speech, caste-based remarks, and online harassment” through his social media posts and public statements.
“His recent activities and statements on social media platforms, in media interactions, and at public forums are deeply derogatory and discriminatory towards members of the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) communities,” the complaint read.
The complainant further said that Mattu had launched an online campaign advocating the elimination of the reservation system and, in doing so, targeted individuals belonging to the ST category. “He has publicly shared personal details of certain individuals, including a doctor, on social media, which amounts to harassment, intimidation, and criminal threat,” the complaint added.
The alliance has also compiled a series of Mattu’s posts on X since last year as evidence and has sought registration of an FIR against him under Section 196 (promoting enmity between different groups), Section 353 (statements conducing to public mischief), and Section 351 (criminal intimidation) of the BNS.
Meanwhile, the Gurjar Desh Charitable Trust (GDCT), a prominent organisation of nomads based in Jammu, also condemned Mattu’s remarks, describing them as “irresponsible, divisive, and unbecoming of a public representative.”
“Such statements reflect a regressive mindset and are detrimental to the spirit of communal harmony, peace and inclusiveness that Jammu and Kashmir has always cherished,” the trust stated.
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