SRINAGAR: National Conference Additional Spokesperson, Sarah Hayat Shah while expressing dismay over the Government’s indifference towrads politicians put under preventive detention pre and post article 370,35A abrogation, demands immediate release of all detained politicians.
Sarah took to tweeter and wrote, “Govt. of India must release Mehbooba Mufti, Ali Muhammad Sagar, Peer Mansoor, Nayeem Akhtar, Sartaj Madni, Hilal Akbar Lone, Shah Faisal, Sajad Lone and all other political detainees”.
She tweets, “Their loved ones fear for their lives amid Covid19, their families also face a lot of inconvenience carrying food and visiting them. This is only going to add to the problem”.
Pertinetly the Government of India released many politicians of Jammu and Kashmir after months of detention as it scraps special status of the state and bifurcates it into two Union Territories of Ladakh, Jammu Kashmir.
However many leaders of National conference (NC), People’s Democratic Party (PDP) , People’s Conference (PC) and People’s Movement (PM) were shifted from earlier place of detention to house arrest.
Recently in a major move National Conference Chief and Member Parliament Farooq Abdullah was released after government withdraws his detention under Public Safety Act (PSA) followed by release of his son and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
It is observed since then NC, PDP has began to raise voice against contineuous detention of politician such as PDP chief and Former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, PC Chief Sajad Lone, JKPM Chief Shah Faesal, NC Senior Leader Ali Mohammad Sagar and others. In view of outbreak of Coronavirus, all political parties and family members of detainees are expressing anguish against their continuous detention.
Meanwhile demands to release all other youth, people taken into preventive custody in view of abrogation of article 370,35A on August, 05 in 2019 last year is picking up. The coronavirus scare also has created anxiety among their family members.
