Hari Parvat issue: VHP demands sacking of tourism Director

Condemning the renaming of Hari Parvat as 'Koh-e-Maran' in the advertisement of Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Department, VHP today demanded the state government immediately sack the Director Tourism.
"We condemn the action of Director Tourism, Srinagar for changing the ancient Sanskrit name Hari Parvat as Koh-e-Maran in its advertisement", State VHP President Leela Karan Sharma told reporters here today.
He condemned the recent advertisement of J-K Tourism in newspapers in which it referred to Hari Parvat as Koh-e-Maran which triggered the controversy.
"Even there have been attempts to rename Shankaracharya hills as Takht-e-Suleman and Anantnag as Islamabad which can't be tolerated," Sharma alleged.

He said,"these ancient monuments of Hindu civilization are in existence when Islam was not even born in Kashmir".
VHP demanded the state government immediately sack the Director & withdraw the advertisement failing which it will protest on the roads for protecting the hindu heritage in the valley.
"VHP smells this act as a step towards the Islamisation of the valley...Government on one hand is taking steps to rehabilitate the Kashmiri Pandits back in the valley, honourably & safely and on the other hand some bureaucrats are siding with separatists & disturbing the harmony", he alleged.
Another right-wing outfit, Bajrang Dal, has also protested by burning the effigy of Director Tourism, Srinagar at Residency Road, Jammu.