By PTI
Jammu and Kashmir administration Saturday foiled the plans of mainstream political parties, to pay homage to the 22 Kashmiri people killed by the army of a Dogra ruler on this day in 1931, by preventing them from taking out marches and putting several leaders under house arrest.
Several political leaders, including PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, claimed authorities have put them under house arrest to prevent them from visiting the ‘martyrs’ graveyard’ to pay homage.
There was no official word on the claims made by the politicians.
Mehbooba, a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, alleged that she was put under “house arrest” at her residence in Khimber in the outskirts of the city. “The gates of my house have been locked up yet again to prevent me from visiting Mazar e Shuhada – an enduring symbol of Kashmir’s resistance and resilience against authoritarianism, oppression and injustice,” she said in a post on X.
The PDP chief said the “sacrifices of our martyrs is a testament that the spirit of Kashmiri’s cannot be crushed” and added that “today even observing it in remembrance of the protesters martyred on this day has been criminalised.” The politician also lamented the bifurcation of erstwhile state of Jammu and kashmir in a post.
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