Senior Congress leader and leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday fulfilled National Conference (NC) president and MP Dr. Farooq Abdullah– who was released on Friday— in Srinagar and pitched for release of detained mainstream leaders, while preventing any talk about Article 370 and 35 A.
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” Development in J&K, which has actually come to a stop, can not be performed by putting the leaders under detention. A political procedure is to be initiated and can just continue just after the [mainstream] leaders are released. To start with, democracy ought to be brought back here,” stated Mr. Azad.
He required release of NC vice-president Omar Abdullah and Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti, both previous Chief Ministers, and others held in various detention centres in J&K.
Mr. Azad is the first national leader to meet Dr. Abdullah, who was released after over seven mo