On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, Jammu and Kashmir administration has ended the house arrest of some leaders in Jammu. Yes, after the removal of Section 370, the local police had detained several leaders in Jammu as a precaution and also Chaudhary Lal Singh, former minister and president of Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan Party. In such a situation, the detention of leaders of all opposition parties under arrest in Jammu has been removed and the leaders who have been detained include leaders of the National Conference, Congress, Panthers Party.
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Recently, apart from Chaudhary Lal Singh, president of Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan Party, the leaders who have been removed from the house have included the names of Devendra Rana and SS Salathia of National Conference, Raman Bhalla of Congress and Harsh Dev Singh of Panthers Party. At the same time, tell you that these leaders were placed under house arrest from August 5 and the Central Government, taking a big decision on August 5, abolished the status of special state from Jammu and Kashmir and by dividing the state into 2 parts, Article 370 was also neutralized.
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At the same time, along with this decision, the government also kept many opposition leaders under house arrest and after the decision on Article 370, the local police had arrested former minister and Dogra Swabhiman Organization Party's Chaudhary Lal Singh as a precautionary measure.
You will be aware that Lal Singh is the first leader of Jammu who was under house arrest and Chaudhary Lal Singh was not allowed to leave from his government residence in Gandhinagar, Jammu. Not only Jammu, but many leaders from Kashmir were also under house arrest and all these included former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, Omar Abdullah and other leaders. With this, senior National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah said that "people are being imprisoned in the Kashmir Valley".
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