Peoples Democratic Party president and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said the BJP was turning Jammu and Kashmir into a theatre of war for electoral gains by criminalising dissent, bundling people into jails and banning religious outfits.
“The repressive measures and the iron fist approach are being rigorously implemented, with the common masses being threatened, intimated and harassed by the government,” said Ms. Mufti, after chairing a meeting of party leaders in Srinagar.
She took exception to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertions that “air strikes against Pakistan was a pilot project.” “Whom is PM Modi trying to threaten with such warmongering?” She said the ban on Jamaat-e-Islami was undemocratic, as it “further shrinks the space for politics and dialogue”.
