IIOJK MLA’s arrest: AAP urges Omar Abdullah to convene emergency Assembly session, visit Doda
Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the Aam Aadmi Party has appealed to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to convene an emergency Assembly session and personally visit Doda to take stock of the tense situation triggered by the arrest of party’s legislator Meraj Malik under the draconian Public Safety Act (PSA).
According to Kashmir Media Service, AAP’s IIOJK spokesperson, Muddasir Hassan, said in Srinagar that the party leaders were being denied access to Doda and even their voices were being suppressed. “Our simple appeal to the [occupied] Jammu and Kashmir government is to convene an emergency Assembly session, ensure that the chief minister visits Doda and personally assesses the ground situation,” he said.
Hassan condemned the denial of democratic space, saying AAP leaders are not being allowed to visit Doda and “even our voices are being silenced as we are not permitted to speak freely to the media”.
He pointed out that Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh and former Delhi minister Imran Hussain, AAP’s IIOJK in-charge, were also barred from speaking to the press in Srinagar. “This is the dictatorship of the BJP. The voice of the aam aadmi is being crushed, and media houses are being directed not to cover us,” he remarked.
He appealed to the people of IIOJK to raise their voice in support of Malik, the elected MLA from Doda, whose detention under the PSA, Hassan said, raises a serious question mark over the Indian democracy.
Malik, who won the Doda seat in the 2024 Assembly polls, was detained on Monday and shifted to Kathua district jail on allegations of disturbing public order. His arrest has sparked widespread protests and clashes between demonstrators and Indian forces in Doda, leaving many injured and over 80, including women, arrested.
