Jammu and Kashmir Leader of Opposition Sunil Sharma on Monday said it was unfortunate that the elected Chief Minister jumped over the boundary wall of Mazar-e-Shuhada and allegedly "engaged" in a scuffle with police.
Jammu and Kashmir Leader of Opposition Sunil Sharma on Monday criticised Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for scaling the boundary wall of the Mazar-e-Shuhada and allegedly "scuffling" with police personnel in Srinagar.
On Sunday, Jammu and Kashmir Police sealed the Martyrs' cemetery in Srinagar and confined top political leaders, including Abdullah, inside their residences. barring them from visiting the Martyrs' Graveyard (Mazar-e-Shuhada), to mark the anniversary of the protesters shot dead by Maharaj
"We are nobody's slaves," Abdullah asserted, adding that he must be informed under which law he was stopped from visiting the Mazar-e-Shuhada in Srinagar's Naqshband Sahib. The Jammu and Kashmir CM said that despite attempts to stop him, he was able to recite prayers.
People's Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said that the "dil ki doori (distance of hearts)" between Kashmir and the rest of India would end when the Centre accepts Kashmir's heroes as its own, just as Kashmiris have embraced national figures.