The NC on Saturday reiterated its demand of lifting siege on Jammu and Kashmir and releasing its party leaders including president Farooq Abdullah and vice president Omar Abdullah from “continued detention” after “robbing” of the special entity of the state.
The Centre had on August 5 revoked the provisions of Article 370, which gave special autonomous status to Jammu & Kashmir. “The idea of secular and democratic India is in peril in this part of the country which is undergoing (the) most traumatic phase in its history,” senior leaders of the National Conference said in a resolution adopted at a meeting at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan here. The leaders expressed anguish over “detention” of hundreds of party leaders in the Valley, Jammu region and Ladakh, saying it was “chilling and unprecedented”.