Detained PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti's Party Members To Meet Her On Monday – NDTV News, Ndtv.com

Srinagar:

A delegation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from Jammu will be allowed to meet detained party chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday. The Jammu and Kashmir administration consented to the meeting today, shortly after a team of former National Conference MLAs visited party leaders Farooq and Omar Abdullah for the first time since their detention two months ago.

Mehbooba Mufti and the Abdullahs were among a number of political leaders from the Valley placed under detention on the eve of August 5, when the center scrapped the special status accorded to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 and bifurcated it into two union territories.

After meeting the Abdullahs earlier today, senior National Conference leaders Akbar Lone and Hasnain Masoodi told NDTV that they had only come to enquire about their well-being – not discuss politics. Omar Abdullah, sporting a beard, clicked selfies with the leaders during the meeting.

The government had relaxed the restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir days after the announcement of the Block Development elections. While all detained political leaders in Jammu were released, Farooq Khan, advisor to Governor Satya Pal Malik, said the Kashmiri leaders would be released in a phased manner.

On Saturday, BJP leader Ram Madhav also expressed a similar sentiment. “We want normal political activity to be restored in the state. But it has to be normal political activity,” he said.

Although Mehbooba Mufti does not have access to social media, her daughter Iltija continues to make critical observations on the Kashmir scenario from her Twitter handle with “due authorization”. Two weeks ago, a tweet posted from her handle criticized the manner in which a “move ostensibly taken to secure the special interests of Jammu and Kashmir” was being cheered by everybody but the people it was supposed to benefit.

After meeting the Abdullahs, the National Conference delegation led by Devender Singh Rana reiterated its demand that the center release all detained political leaders with immediate effect to ensure normalcy in the region. “We, as a party, appeal that for the political process to start and democracy to revive in Jammu and Kashmir, political detenues anywhere and everywhere – be it mainstream political parties or otherwise, who have no criminal record – may be released, “he said, adding Kashmir was in a state of” anguish “over the ongoing lockdown.

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