{"id":21808,"date":"2020-03-24T21:49:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T16:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=21808"},"modified":"2020-03-24T21:49:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T16:19:29","slug":"time-to-restore-rights-of-jk-people-priyanka-on-omar-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=21808","title":{"rendered":"Time to restore rights of J&#038;K people: Priyanka on Omar release"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><strong>The order comes just a day before the hearing in the apex court.<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday welcomed the decision of releasing former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah from the \u201cunconstitutional detention\u201d and said \u201cit is time restore the rights of people of the Jammu and Kashmir too.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo happy to learn that Omar Abdullah\u2019s unconstitutional and undemocratic detention has been revoked at last. Its about time the union government restores democratic and constitutional rights to the people of Jammu and Kashmir as well,\u201d Priyanka Gandhi said in a tweet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Her remarks came after the Jammu and Kashmir government revoked the Public Safety Act (PSA) of former chief minister and ended his detention on Tuesday more than seven months after he and two other former chief ministers \u2014 Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti were detained ahead of the revocation of Article 370 on August 5 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGovernment issues orders revoking detention of Shri Omar Abdullah,\u201d Government Spokesperson Rohit Kansal tweeted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The order comes just a day before the hearing in the apex court.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Omar Abdullah was among the 50 odd politicians who were kept under \u2018preventive detention\u2019 after the revocation of Article 370 and bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories (UTs) on August 5, 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti were slapped with PSA on February 7 after being detained under preventive detention since August 5, 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The PSA was slapped on former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on September 16, 2019, after 42 days of preventive detention.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A few days before the Article 370 move by the Centre, Farooq Abdullah had presided over a meeting of all parties in Kashmir in which Omar also participated and had adopted a declaration \u2013 Gupkar declaration \u2013 that they will not accept any tinkering with Article 370.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The order comes just a day before the hearing in the apex court. Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday welcomed the decision of releasing former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah from the \u201cunconstitutional detention\u201d and said \u201cit is time restore the rights of people of the Jammu and Kashmir too.\u201d \u201cSo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}