Yasir had said that Ummat-e-Islami will place ballot boxes where people will be asked to choose between “Azadi and India.”
Srinagar: Mirwaiz South Kashmir and Chairman of Ummat-e-Islami Qazi Yasir was detained by the police on Monday. A spokesman said that the police raided the residence of Mirwaiz Yasir early hours on Monday and detained him.
He (Mirwaiz) was lodged at police station Sadr,” said the spokesman, adding that this was the second raid at his home within past 12 hours.
“A police team raided his residence last night as well but couldn’t find Mirwaiz there. They took away the ballot boxes stored there for ‘demo referendum’,” he said.
Yasir, while addressing a press conference on Sunday had said that Ummat-e-Islami will place ballot boxes at all the main squares of south Kashmir where people will be asked to choose between “Azadi and India.”
While speaking to News18, Yasir had said, “these polling booths will be for Aazadi. India is deceiving world by polls in Kashmir. I want to counter that deception. I want everybody to come out and lift the mask and express themselves. We cannot hold people at home by force,” he said.
“I am not against people who will vote for civic polls but I believe most of the people are with us.”
