Sitaram Yechury, D Raja try to visit Jammu and Kashmir, detained at Srinagar airport
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IBNS): After Congress Rajya Sabha MP Ghulam Nabi Azad, Left leaders Sitaram Yechury and D Raja were detained at the Srinagar airport on Friday as they tried to meet CPI-M leader Mohd. Yusuf Tarigami in Jammu and Kashmir.
Tarigami was a CPI-M MLA in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly which has been dissolved.
On Thursday, Azad was stopped at the Srinagar airport and sent back to Delhi as Section 144 is still active in Jammu and Kashmir.
The leaders are visiting the valley after the Bharatiya Janata arty (BJP) government on Monday took away the special status of Jammu and Kashmir by scrapping Articles 370 and 35A.
Also the government bifurcated Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories, Jammu and Kashmir with an assembly and Ladakh without an assembly.
Several Kashmir leaders including former Chief Ministers- Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti- have been kept under detention.
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