<p>Cracks in moderate Hurriyat widened on Sunday with supporters of rival groups of the conglomerate clashing with each other during a seminar here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Trouble erupted after supporters of moderate Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq disrupted the speech of Nayeem Khan of the Democratic Freedom Party at the Hurriyat headquarter here.<br /><br />“The supporters of Khan objected leading to a tussle in which both the parties exchanged blows. For some time the clashes continued and it was only after the intervention of a few senior leaders that the situation was brought under control,” eyewitnesses told Deccan Herald. They said the rival supporters were seen throwing furniture on another.<br /><br />Khan’s DFP is a constituent of the moderate Hurriyat. The seminar was not attended by the Mirwaiz as he had been placed under house arrest by the authorities in his uptown Nigeen residence.<br /><br />Rift within the moderate Hurriyat erupted earlier this month when executive council member Abdul Gani Bhat at a rally in north Kashmir said the UN plebiscite resolutions were no longer “practically implementable” in the state.<br /><br />Bhat’s statement drew flak from several constituents of the moderate faction, including Khan’s National Front, fuelling speculation that the conglomerate was heading for a split.<br />Another executive council member and close ally of Khan, Shabir Shah told reporters that those speaking against the Hurriyat constitution should have been served a notice, an oblique reference to the Bhat.<br /><br />While demanding Bhat’s expulsion from the Hurriyat he said: “I can’t brush shoulders with those elements who want to sell blood of martyrs.”</p>
<p>Cracks in moderate Hurriyat widened on Sunday with supporters of rival groups of the conglomerate clashing with each other during a seminar here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Trouble erupted after supporters of moderate Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq disrupted the speech of Nayeem Khan of the Democratic Freedom Party at the Hurriyat headquarter here.<br /><br />“The supporters of Khan objected leading to a tussle in which both the parties exchanged blows. For some time the clashes continued and it was only after the intervention of a few senior leaders that the situation was brought under control,” eyewitnesses told Deccan Herald. They said the rival supporters were seen throwing furniture on another.<br /><br />Khan’s DFP is a constituent of the moderate Hurriyat. The seminar was not attended by the Mirwaiz as he had been placed under house arrest by the authorities in his uptown Nigeen residence.<br /><br />Rift within the moderate Hurriyat erupted earlier this month when executive council member Abdul Gani Bhat at a rally in north Kashmir said the UN plebiscite resolutions were no longer “practically implementable” in the state.<br /><br />Bhat’s statement drew flak from several constituents of the moderate faction, including Khan’s National Front, fuelling speculation that the conglomerate was heading for a split.<br />Another executive council member and close ally of Khan, Shabir Shah told reporters that those speaking against the Hurriyat constitution should have been served a notice, an oblique reference to the Bhat.<br /><br />While demanding Bhat’s expulsion from the Hurriyat he said: “I can’t brush shoulders with those elements who want to sell blood of martyrs.”</p>
