Jammu & Kashmir
PAGD members placed under house arrest ahead of protest in Srinagar, says Alliance
Srinagar: Many members associated with Peoples’ Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) on Saturday said that they have been placed under ‘house arrest’ ahead of the amalgam’s proposed protest against the “unconstitutional and divisive” draft proposal of Delimitation Commission.
PAGD spokesman Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami said that police have closed gates of his premise at “midnight.
“Gates were closed at midnight. They have told armed forces personnel and other staff (deployed at my premises) to inform me not to leave the premises,” Tarigami said.
He added, “We had decided to hold peaceful protest today against unconstitutional and divisive draft of Delimitation Commission. We wanted to register a peaceful protest.”
Former Chief Minister and National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah also took to Twitter and said that police “trucks” have been parked outside their gates to “scuttle the peaceful protest”.
“Good morning & welcome to 2022. A new year with the same J&K police illegally locking people in their homes & an administration so terrified of normal democratic activity. Trucks parked outside our gates to scuttle the peaceful @JKPAGD sit-in protest. Some things never change,” Omar said.
Omar added, “Talk about a lawless police state, the police have even locked the internal gate connecting my father’s home to my sister’s. Yet our leaders have the cheek to tell the world that India is the largest democracy, hah!!”
The former chief minister of erstwhile state and PDP Chief also re-tweeted Omar’s tweet on her Twitter handle.
The PAGD in its maiden meeting at Jammu had announced a protest in Srinagar on January 1 against the draft proposal of the Delimitation Commission.
PAGD had a meeting at the Jammu residence of National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on December 21 last and discussed the draft proposal.
The meeting was chaired by Farooq Abdullah and attended by PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, CPI (M) general secretary Mohammad Yusuf Tarigami, Awami National Conference vice-president Muzuffar Shah and other political leaders of alliance constituents.
Later, the PAGD held a press conference in which they rejected the draft proposal and termed the same an act to divide people on the basis of religion and groups.
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