Srinagar, August 05: As the per the news sources, On the fifth anniversary of abrogation of Article 370, PDP President Mehbooba Mufti and a number of other politicians claimed on Monday that they had been placed under house arrest.
In a post on X, Mehbooba Mufti wrote, ” 5th August 2019 will go down in history not just as a dark day for J&K but 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”.
“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.” Omar Abdullah wrote in a post on X.
