{"id":314479,"date":"2019-08-06T13:27:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T13:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314479"},"modified":"2019-08-06T13:27:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T13:27:13","slug":"farooq-abdullah-refutes-home-ministers-claim-says-hes-detained-in-his-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/farooq-abdullah-refutes-home-ministers-claim-says-hes-detained-in-his-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Farooq Abdullah refutes Home Minister\u2019s claim; says he\u2019s detained in his house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-300443 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/farooq-abdullah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"716\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/farooq-abdullah.jpg 716w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/farooq-abdullah-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/farooq-abdullah-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/farooq-abdullah-696x513.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/farooq-abdullah-570x420.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/>Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday rubbished Home Minister Amit Shah\u2019s statement that he was at home by his own will. He said that he has been placed under house arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In an emotional outburst, Abdullah said he broke the door to come out and speak to the media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI am not allowed to go out of the house,\u201d he said while speaking to news channels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Abdullah also lashed out at the Central government over scrapping of Article 370 and said that this is unconstitutional.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis is the dictatorship by Modi government,\u201d he said, as he called the government actions undemocratic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Abdullah said he does not know how many have been arrested. \u201cNobody is allowed to come in or go out, we are under house arrest,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier NCP\u2019s Supriya Sule demanded to know why Abdullah was not present on the day the Lok Sabha was debating crucial legislations related to Jammu and Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Responding to it, Amit Shah said Farooq Abdullah was at his home in the Valley. \u201cHe has neither been detained nor arrested. He is at his home, out by his own will,\u201d Shah said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday rubbished Home Minister Amit Shah\u2019s statement that he was at home by his own will. He said that he has been placed under house arrest. In an emotional outburst, Abdullah said he broke the door to come out and speak to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":300443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[1194,3350,3661],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314481,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314479\/revisions\/314481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}