Mehbooba Mufti, the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, was placed under house arrest on Saturday along with other senior PDP leaders. The house arrest came after a midnight crackdown in which scores of her party members were illegally detained.
The BJP is holding several programmes in Srinagar to celebrate the fourth anniversary of Article 370 abrogation, while the PDP was denied permission to hold an event on the anniversary. The PDP spokesman’s party headquarters in Srinagar were sealed.
Mehbooba Mufti took to Twitter to condemn the house arrest and detention of her party members, saying that the government’s actions were “driven by paranoia”. She said that the government’s false claims about normalcy in Kashmir had been exposed by its actions.
Mehbooba Mufti also shared a video showing PDP leader Arif Laigroo being detained by the J&K Police.
The house arrest of Mehbooba Mufti and other PDP leaders is seen as a sign of the government’s increasing crackdown on dissent in Kashmir.
