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New Delhi
Politicians who have been detained in Indian-administered Kashmir after the government scrapped special status to the state under Article 370 and divided it into two Union Territories will not be kept confined at “VIP bungalows” for more than 18 months, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Sunday, according to news agency Press Trust of India.
Mr Singh said the leaders have not been arrested but are living as “house guests”. “Political leaders have been kept in VIP bungalows. We have even given them CDs of Hollywood movies. Gym facility has also been provided to them. They are not under house arrest. They are house guests,” the Union Minister of State for the Prime Minister’s Office said at a public event in Jammu. Some 400 politicians in Indian-administered Kashmir, including former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, have been kept under detention since the centre’s move on Kashmir on August 5.
“Each chief minister, and each political party be it Congress, National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party in Indian-administered Kashmir have tried their level best to fight militancy. If there is no militancy today, it is because of these political parties and not the BJP,” Congress MP Ghulam Nabi Azad said last week.
New Delhi
Politicians who have been detained in Indian-administered Kashmir after the government scrapped special status to the state under Article 370 and divided it into two Union Territories will not be kept confined at “VIP bungalows” for more than 18 months, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Sunday, according to news agency Press Trust of India.
Mr Singh said the leaders have not been arrested but are living as “house guests”. “Political leaders have been kept in VIP bungalows. We have even given them CDs of Hollywood movies. Gym facility has also been provided to them. They are not under house arrest. They are house guests,” the Union Minister of State for the Prime Minister’s Office said at a public event in Jammu. Some 400 politicians in Indian-administered Kashmir, including former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, have been kept under detention since the centre’s move on Kashmir on August 5.
“Each chief minister, and each political party be it Congress, National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party in Indian-administered Kashmir have tried their level best to fight militancy. If there is no militancy today, it is because of these political parties and not the BJP,” Congress MP Ghulam Nabi Azad said last week.
