Leaders, Mehbooba’s kin welcome Omar’s release
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Jammu and Kashmir unit of CPI(M), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter Iltija Mufti on Tuesday welcomed the release of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah
Welcoming the move, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra called for the restoration of democratic rights of people in the region. “So happy to learn that Omar Abdullah’s unconstitutional and undemocratic detention has been revoked at last. It is about time the union government restores democratic and constitutional rights to the people of Jammu and Kashmir as well,” read the tweet.
The central government issued orders revoking the detention of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday.
Abdullah was among the many political leaders who had been put under house arrest after the Central government revoked Article 370 of the Constitution that accorded special status to Jammu and Kashmir.
Omar Abdullah’s father Farooq Abdullah was released from detention earlier this month, while PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti is still under detention.
The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, who turned 50 on March 10, had spent 232 days in custody since the government announced abrogation of the special status of the erstwhile state on August 5 last year.
I l t i j a Mufti a l s o hai l e d National Conference (NC) leader Omar Abdullah’s release from nearly eight months of detention. However, Iltija Mufti, whose mother is still under detention under the Public Safety Act, said for all its talk of women power and women emancipation, the Centre seems to fear women the most – referring to her mother’s continued detention.
“...For all their talk of nari Shakti & women emancipation, seems like this regime fears women the most (sic),” Iltija wrote on Mehbooba Mufti’s Twitter handle.
She has been tweeting from her mother’s handle ever since the PDP president and former chief minister was detained in
August last year.
Senior Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), leader in J&K M Y Tarigami welcomed the revocation of PSA against former chief minister Omar Abdullah and called for restoration of 4G mobile internet services and mobilisation of all resources to contain the spread of coronavirus in the UT.
“This (release of Omar) is a welcome move … We reiterate our demand for release of all those who have been arrested since August 5, especially those kept in different jails outside Jammu and Kashmir,” Tarigami told news agency PTI.
He also urged the administration to focus on mobilisation of all resources and do everything possible to contain the spread of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the region.