India
Mehbooba Mufti demands release of Priyanka Gandhi
Srinagar: PDP president and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday demanded the release of Indian National Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi.
Priyanka was arrested on her way to Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district to visit the families of the farmers killed on Sunday, and had been arrested in Hargaon
Taking to the micro-blogging site twitter, she wrote that “GOI first gets a docile media to berate Congress & lament lack of a viable opposition but systematically ensures they don’t discharge their duties by illegal arrests.We are a democracy on paper but clearly the grim descent into a banana republic has begun. Release @priyankagandhi.”
GOI first gets a docile media to berate Congress & lament lack of a viable opposition but systematically ensures they don’t discharge their duties by illegal arrests.We are a democracy on paper but clearly the grim descent into a banana republic has begun.Release @priyankagandhi
— Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) October 5, 2021
Earlier today, the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) staged a protest outside their Srinagar office against the arrest of Priyanka Gandhi and demanded the resignation of the Yogi Adityanath government.
