Mehbooba Mufti

Officials, however, did not comment on the claim.

Mehbooba Mufti said illegal detention has become the Indian government’s go to method for muzzling any form of opposition. I have been detained once again because I wanted to visit Budgam where hundreds of families were evicted from their homes

The PDP leader who had just filed his nomination from Pulwama for the upcoming District Development Council (DDC) elections, has been arrested over links with terror organisation Hizbul Mujahideen's Commander Naveed Babu.

The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister was reacting to the alleged house arrest of Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti.

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti said that for the last two days, she had not been allowed to console the family of party leader Waheed Parra, who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency earlier.

We have no option but to quit the PDP which has been hijacked by unscrupulous, communal elements with mysterious character, the leaders - Fallail Singh, Dhaman Bhasin, and Pritam Kotwal - said in their resignation

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti had on October 23 said she was not interested in contesting elections or holding the tricolour, the national flag, till the constitutional changes enforced on August 5 last year were rolled back

In an audio message posted on Twitter shortly after her release, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti said that people of the erstwhile state will have to "get back what Delhi snatched" in an "undemocratic and illegal way”.

On August 5, 2019, along with Mehbooba Mufti, hundreds of people and political leaders were taken into preventive custody hours ahead of the Centre revoking the special status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370

Mehbooba, the president of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was put under detention on the eve of abrogation of special status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 on August 5 last year.

Mufti was initially put under preventive custody on August 5, 2019, and later booked under the stringent PSA on February 6 this year.

Before shifting her, the government accorded the status of subsidary jail to her official residence with immediate effect.

The meeting comes two days after he had asked all political parties of Jammu and Kashmir to jointly appeal to the Centre to bring back all detainees lodged outside the Union Territory.

The UT authorities on February 5 invoked the PSA provision against Mufti to keep her in detention which has been challenged by her daughter Iltija Mufti before the top court.

Rajnath Singh also said that he hopes they will contribute to normalising the situation in Jammu and Kashmir

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah's "considerable influence" over people, including the ability to attract voters to polling booths despite poll boycott calls and the potential for channelling energies of public for any cause, has been cited in support of his detention under the PSA.

The PSA dossier prepared by the police against the 49-year-old Omar, states his ability to convince electorates to vote in huge numbers even during the peak of militancy and poll boycott calls by separatists and militants

Taking to Twitter, Priyanka said the two Jammu and Kashmir leaders have upheld the Constitution and abided by the democratic process and never ascribed to violence and divisiveness.

Mufti and Abdullah, besides two political stalwarts from the PDP and its arch-rival National Conference, were booked under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) by the administration on Thursday, officials in the union territory said.

The senior PDP leader urged the government to consider the immediate release of all detained politicians, seeking separate trial of those who have made seditious comments.