Srinagar
Former president of the Indian Congress Party, Rahul Gandhi, on Sunday said that he had experienced firsthand “the draconian administration and brute force unleashed on the Jammu and Kashmir people” as he shared his encounter at the Srinagar airport a day earlier.
Tweeting about his disturbing experience, when he, along with a delegation of India’s opposition parties, was prevented from entering the city by the Indian-occupied Kashmir administration, the Congress leader wrote:
“It’s been 20 days since the people of Jammu & Kashmir had their freedom and civil liberties curtailed. Leaders of the Opposition and the Press got a taste of the draconian administration and brute force unleashed on the people of J&K when we tried to visit Srinagar yesterday.”
The opposition leaders had intended to visit Kashmir to assess the situation in the wake of the BJP government’s decision to revoke the occupied region’s special autonomy. – Agencies