Srinagar: The central government abolished Article 370 applicable in Jammu and Kashmir on August 5. After this, hundreds of leaders and activists of the main political parties of the state were put under house arrest. The government kept them in preventive custody. Now the government has started their release in view of the improving situation in Kashmir and the process of the Block Development Council (BDC) elections going to be held in the near future. All the major political leaders associated with mainstream politics in Jammu province have been freed from detention.

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The process of releasing them has been started after assessing the leaders' background in Kashmir and their ideology regarding the change in the constitutional position of the state. However, the three former chief ministers Dr Farooq Abdullah, Omar and Mehbooba and some other senior leaders have refused to accept the bond and other administrative conditions for the release. It is believed that the top leaders of the People's Democratic Party and the National Conference will remain under house arrest.

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So far, about three dozen prominent leaders of the National Conference, PDP and Congress, who were allegedly under house arrest, have been freed in the state. However, besides the three former chief ministers of the state, about one thousand prominent leaders and activists, including Sajjad Gani Lone, chairman of the People's Conference and Shah Faisal, who were active in the politics of the princely state of the bureaucracy, are currently under preventive custody or custody. This matter has also reached the Supreme Court.

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