Several political leaders in Jammu and Kashmir have alleged that they have been placed under house arrest by authorities on the anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370.
Leaders from various parties alleged on Monday that police officers arrived at their homes, preventing them from leaving.
National Conference chief spokesperson Tanvir Sadiq said, “I needed to leave for some work, but policemen outside my gate prevented me from doing so. This is unwarranted and illegal.”
People’s Democratic Party leader Waheed Para also told reporters that he and other party leaders were under house arrest.
As of now, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has not issued any statement regarding the detentions.
Meanwhile, Omar Abdullah while taking to social media platform X said, “This is what passes for democracy & free speech in J&K.
A handful of BJP “leaders” are encouraged to celebrate today while those who would have registered their protest against what was done to J&K are locked up in homes across the valley.”
Similarly, Sajad Lone, leader of the Jammu and Kashmir People’s Conference, considered to be close to the Modi government in Kashmir Valley, voiced his dissatisfaction on social media, stating, “August 5 will always be an ugly reminder of the complete disempowerment of the Kashmiri people.”
He added, “Five years on, there is no elected Assembly and the locals have no say in running their own affairs.”
Echoing similar sentiments, Mehbooba Mufti wrote on her X handle, that August 5 2019 will go down in history not just as a dark day for J&K but as a blot on Indian democracy.
“The day when a semi-autonomous state was disempowered, dismembered & robbed of everything special & sacrosanct to us.
“Since then the state has been threatened into silence which is touted as ‘peace and normalcy’ to the rest of the country.
Five years on the siege continues but so does the unyielding defiance & resistance. We Kashmiris refuse to be erased & unpeopled.”
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