delimitation commission: PAGD leaders detained ahead of march against Jammu and Kashmir Delimitation Commission

Political leaders together with three former chief ministers have been detained forward of a march by the Folks’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) to protest towards the suggestions of the Delimitation Fee. “Good morning and welcome to 2022. A brand new 12 months with the identical JK police illegally locking individuals of their houses and an administration so petrified of regular democratic exercise,” Nationwide Convention vice-president and former chief minister Omar Abdullah tweeted.

“Vehicles parked exterior our gates to scuttle the peaceable @JKPAGD sit-in protest. Some issues by no means change,” he stated.

Abdullah, whose father and veteran politician Farooq Abdullah heads the PAGD, claimed, “Speak about a lawless police state, the police have even locked the interior gate connecting my father’s dwelling to my sister’s. But our leaders have the cheek to inform the world that India is the most important democracy, hah!!”

Senior CPI (M) chief M Y Tarigami, who’s the spokesperson of the alliance, stated it was unhappy that the Jammu and Kashmir administration was “scared even to permit a peaceable protest”.

“That is the place the state of affairs will get worse when persons are not even allowed to precise their opinion earlier than the general public,” he added.

Former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti had additionally been positioned below detention. “A truck is parked exterior my home too,” she added.

The PAGD had proposed to carry a peaceable demonstration in Srinagar on Saturday towards the proposal of the Delimitation Fee of accelerating six seats in Jammu division and one in Kashmir. With this, the variety of seats in Jammu would have gone as much as 43 and Kashmir to 47.