BTH 34 | Farooq Abdullah’s Arrest: The Government’s Lies Are Piling Up
In this episode of Beyond the Headlines, Siddharth Varadarajan unravels the government's lies about the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and the general illegality of the political detentions made in the state since August 5, when Article 370 was effectively scrapped.
Abdullah has been chief minister of the undivided and erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir three times. He has been a Rajya Sabha member for one term. He has thrice been elected as a Member of the Lok Sabha, most recently in May 2019, and served in the Union cabinet as a minister for a decade. He has been fielded by the government of India before international delegations as a democratically elected representative of the Kashmiri people. Remember, for the past several decades, the diplomatic and political message the Government of India has sent out through elected leaders like Abdullah is that all talk of plebiscites and resolution of “the Kashmir issue” has lost its relevance since the people of Jammu and Kashmir have been asserting their aspirations via the ballot box.
Today Abdullah is in jail. Two other former chief ministers – Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah – are in jail. Dozens of other politicians who have taken part in elections at one time or the other are also in custody. Some are under house arrest, others kept captive in makeshift detention centres in Kashmir and even outside, in other parts of India.
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Abdullah has been chief minister of the undivided and erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir three times. He has been a Rajya Sabha member for one term. He has thrice been elected as a Member of the Lok Sabha, most recently in May 2019, and served in the Union cabinet as a minister for a decade. He has been fielded by the government of India before international delegations as a democratically elected representative of the Kashmiri people. Remember, for the past several decades, the diplomatic and political message the Government of India has sent out through elected leaders like Abdullah is that all talk of plebiscites and resolution of “the Kashmir issue” has lost its relevance since the people of Jammu and Kashmir have been asserting their aspirations via the ballot box.
Today Abdullah is in jail. Two other former chief ministers – Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah – are in jail. Dozens of other politicians who have taken part in elections at one time or the other are also in custody. Some are under house arrest, others kept captive in makeshift detention centres in Kashmir and even outside, in other parts of India.
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