J&K Administration Ends House Arrest Of Political Leaders In Jammu indiatoday.in
The Jammu and Kashmir administration has ended the house arrest of almost all political leaders from Jammu. Almost all leaders from the National Conference (NC), Congress and Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) in Jammu have been freed from their detention. They were placed under preventive detention since August 5 after the abrogation of Article 370. NC leaders Devender Rana and SS Salathia, Congress’s Raman Bhalla and JKNPP leader Harshdev Singh are some of the prominent leaders who are no longer under house arrest. The fresh development comes almost two months after they were detained.
However, prominent leaders in Kashmir including NCP’s Omar Abdullah and Farooq Abdullah, PDP’s Mehbooba Mufti, J&K People’s Conference’s Sajjad Gani Lone and many others continue to remain under house arrest. The Jammu and Kashmir administration and many prominent leaders from the Bharatiya Janata Party have defended the move to put such leaders under preventive detention and said the action was taken to prevent any untoward incident after the scrapping of Article 370. Just a few days ago, Union minister Jitendra Singh said that no politician in Jammu and Kashmir will be detained beyond 18 months and asserted that they are not under arrest, but are living as “house guests”.
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