Farooq Abdullah Stopped From Leaving His House

Former Chief Minister of Indian Illegal Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and National Conference Chief Farooq Abdullah was prevented from leaving his residence in Srinagar on Monday in view of security concerns on the anniversary of the Pulwama terror attack, said media reports. The move prompted the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) president to lodge a strong protest.

The National Conference also issued a statement condemning the Jammu and Kashmir administration’s move and called Abdullah’s detention “illegal and inexplicable”. “There was and is no justification for such frequent and arbritary detention of the party leadership. Convenient use of coercive structures is the only modus operandi of this government,” said the party in an official statement.

Quoting sources in the National Conference, news agency PTI reported that Abdulla was scheduled to travel to Jammu by road, a stretch of nearly 300 kilometers. The information about the programme had been conveyed to the concerned authorities five days in advance, but to his dismay, Abdullah found that the exits from his house were barred.