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United News of India
01-07-2025
- Politics
- United News of India
PDP protest foiled by police in Srinagar, several detained
Srinagar, July 1 (UNI) Jammu and Kashmir Police today foiled a protest march by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Srinagar, detaining several party leaders. The PDP said the protest that began from party headquarters was aimed at highlighting key civic issues, including rising electricity tariffs, acute shortage of drinking and irrigation water, and the demand for shifting Kashmiri detainees back to local jails. A PDP spokesperson said the party had planned a demonstration but was prevented by police, who detained senior leaders and workers activists. The detained among others included senior leaders Abdul Haq Khan ,Mohammad Khurshid Alam, Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura, Basharat Bukhari, Zahoor Ahmad Mir and several former legislators. PDP president and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti accused the administration of showing disproportionate urgency in suppressing peaceful protests by her party, while failing to address pressing public issues in Jammu and Kashmir. "It appears that the administration only flexes its might when it comes to foiling PDP protests & detaining our workers. If only this same power & urgency was applied to address the worsening water crisis, skyrocketing power bills, alarming 17.4 % unemployment rate and unresolved issue of political prisoners," Mehbooba said in a post on X. "We've witnessed our protests being silenced when we raised our voice against unconditional scrapping of Article 370 and human rights violations but now even raising concerns over governance failures has become a punishable act," she added. UNI MJR PRS
The Hindu
01-07-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
PDP's protest march against J&K Govt. thwarted by police, several leaders detained
Police on Tuesday (July 1, 2025) foiled a protest march in Srinagar by the Peoples Democratic Party against the National Conference Government's "failure" to fulfil its promises and a "betrayal" of public trust. Several PDP leaders were also detained by police, officials said. PDP leaders were detained by police while holding a peaceful protest against the NC government's unfulfilled promises & continued betrayal of public trust. — J&K PDP (@jkpdp) July 1, 2025 PDP leaders and activists assembled at the party headquarters near the Sher-e-Kashmir Park here and tried to march towards the Lal Chowk city centre to protest the government's "unfulfilled promises and continued betrayal of public trust". Police asked the protesters to disperse, but they continued their march. Later, police stopped the protesters and took several of them into custody, the officials said. PDP chief and former J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti slammed the detention on X. 'It appears that the administration only flexes its might when it comes to foiling PDP protests and detaining our workers. If only this same power and urgency was applied to address the worsening water crisis, skyrocketing power bills, alarming 17.4% unemployment rate and unresolved issue of political prisoners,' she wrote. 'We've witnessed our protests silenced when we raised our voice against unconditional scrapping of Article 370 and human rights violations but now even raising concerns over governance failures has become a punishable act.' It appears that the administration only flexes its might when it comes to foiling PDP protests & detaining our workers. If only this same power & urgency was applied to address the worsening water crisis, skyrocketing power bills, alarming 17.4 % unemployment rate and unresolved… — Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) July 1, 2025 PDP general secretaries Abdul Haq Khan and Mohammad Khurshid Alam, and senior leaders Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura and Syed Basharat Bukhari were detained by police. Some leaders of the party's women's wing were also detained. Before being taken away by police, Hanjura described the police action as "dictatorship" by the government. "We tried to take out a protest march against the non-availability of drinking water, increase in electricity tariff and to demand the return of our youth languishing in jails outside J&K. But look at this dictatorship of the LG administration and the Omar Abdullah government that we are not even allowed to protest peacefully," he said.
United News of India
01-07-2025
- Politics
- United News of India
PDP protest foiled in Srinagar, several detained
Srinagar, July 1 (UNI) The Jammu and Kashmir Police today foiled a protest march by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Srinagar, detaining several party leaders. The PDP said the protest, which began from party headquarters, was aimed at highlighting key civic issues, including rising electricity tariffs, acute shortage of drinking and irrigation water, and the demand for shifting Kashmiri detainees back to local jails. A PDP spokesperson said the party had planned a demonstration but was prevented by police, who detained senior leaders and workers activists. The detained among others included senior leaders Abdul Haq Khan, Mohammad Khurshid Alam, Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura, Basharat Bukhari, Zahoor Ahmad Mir and several former legislators. The PDP condemned the elected government for disallowing the protest to highlight the basic issues. 'Isn't it a dictatorship that this protest was not allowed by the government?' PDP leader Hanjura asked . UNI MJR PRS
