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Police on Tuesday (July 1, 2025) foiled a protest march in Srinagar by the Peoples Democratic Party against the National Conference Government's "failure" to fulfil its promises and a "betrayal" of public trust.
Several PDP leaders were also detained by police, officials said.
PDP leaders were detained by police while holding a peaceful protest against the NC government's unfulfilled promises & continued betrayal of public trust. pic.twitter.com/QozNfG6RAU
— J&K PDP (@jkpdp) July 1, 2025PDP leaders and activists assembled at the party headquarters near the Sher-e-Kashmir Park here and tried to march towards the Lal Chowk city centre to protest the government's "unfulfilled promises and continued betrayal of public trust".
Police asked the protesters to disperse, but they continued their march. Later, police stopped the protesters and took several of them into custody, the officials said.
PDP chief and former J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti slammed the detention on X.
“It appears that the administration only flexes its might when it comes to foiling PDP protests and detaining our workers. If only this same power and urgency was applied to address the worsening water crisis, skyrocketing power bills, alarming 17.4% unemployment rate and unresolved issue of political prisoners,” she wrote.
“We’ve witnessed our protests silenced when we raised our voice against unconditional scrapping of Article 370 and human rights violations but now even raising concerns over governance failures has become a punishable act.”
It appears that the administration only flexes its might when it comes to foiling PDP protests & detaining our workers. If only this same power & urgency was applied to address the worsening water crisis, skyrocketing power bills, alarming 17.4 % unemployment rate and unresolved…
— Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) July 1, 2025PDP general secretaries Abdul Haq Khan and Mohammad Khurshid Alam, and senior leaders Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura and Syed Basharat Bukhari were detained by police. Some leaders of the party's women's wing were also detained.
Before being taken away by police, Hanjura described the police action as "dictatorship" by the government.
"We tried to take out a protest march against the non-availability of drinking water, increase in electricity tariff and to demand the return of our youth languishing in jails outside J&K. But look at this dictatorship of the LG administration and the Omar Abdullah government that we are not even allowed to protest peacefully," he said.
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