{"id":356639,"date":"2025-09-18T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=356639"},"modified":"2025-09-18T17:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:28:16","slug":"jk-mehbooba-mufti-alleges-house-arrest-to-stop-sopore-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jk-mehbooba-mufti-alleges-house-arrest-to-stop-sopore-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"J&#038;K: Mehbooba Mufti alleges house arrest to stop Sopore visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"830\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/02\/Refuse-to-pay-property-tax-Mehbooba-Mufti-tells-people-in-JK.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-342077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/02\/Refuse-to-pay-property-tax-Mehbooba-Mufti-tells-people-in-JK.jpeg 830w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/02\/Refuse-to-pay-property-tax-Mehbooba-Mufti-tells-people-in-JK-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/02\/Refuse-to-pay-property-tax-Mehbooba-Mufti-tells-people-in-JK-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/02\/Refuse-to-pay-property-tax-Mehbooba-Mufti-tells-people-in-JK-696x392.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/02\/Refuse-to-pay-property-tax-Mehbooba-Mufti-tells-people-in-JK-746x420.jpeg 746w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SRINAGAR: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday alleged that she was placed under house arrest to prevent her from travelling to Sopore in North Kashmir to offer condolences on the death of former Hurriyat Conference chairman Professor Abdul Gani Bhat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post on X, Mufti said the move \u201clays bare the harsh and undemocratic reality in Jammu and Kashmir,\u201d accusing the administration of deliberately curbing political movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe decision to place the political leadership under house arrest today, simply to stop us from visiting Sopore to offer condolences on the demise of Professor Abdul Gani Bhat, lays bare the harsh and undemocratic reality in Jammu and Kashmir,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mufti also referred to the recent uproar at Hazratbal Dargah, calling it an \u201ceruption of spontaneous, raw public anger\u201d and warning that it was \u201cnot an isolated incident but a loud, unmistakable message from a people pushed to the edge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of ignoring widespread resentment in Kashmir. \u201cThe BJP remains wilfully blind to this truth, refusing to learn anything from the suppressed emotions that have been building for years,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PDP chief further alleged that the ruling party was \u201cdetermined to keep the region in a constant state of turmoil, weaponising pain and unrest for political mileage across the rest of the country,\u201d a strategy she described as \u201cirresponsible, dangerous and reprehensible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was no immediate response from the Jammu and Kashmir administration or the BJP to her allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday alleged that she was placed under house arrest to prevent her from travelling to Sopore in North Kashmir to offer condolences on the death of former Hurriyat Conference chairman Professor Abdul Gani Bhat. In a post on X, Mufti said the move \u201clays bare the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":342077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[19179,15686,15623],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356639"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356641,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356639\/revisions\/356641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/342077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}