Martyrs' Day row in J&K: CM Omar Abdullah scales boundary wall to offer prayers - watch

NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir main curate Omar Abdullah scaled the bound partition of the Mazar-e-Shuhada graveyard successful Srinagar connected Monday to connection prayers aft alleging that information forces had tried to forestall him from doing truthful for 2 consecutive days.Abdullah, 55, claimed helium had been nether location apprehension connected July 13, observed arsenic Martyrs' Day successful the region, and was stopped again connected Monday erstwhile helium attempted to wage homage to those buried astatine the graveyard. In a video that rapidly went viral, Abdullah was seen climbing implicit the partition to summation entry, bypassing information barricades that had been placed extracurricular the graveyard.

“It is unfortunate that by the orders of those who assertion their work is to support instrumentality and order, we were not allowed to recite the Fatiha yesterday.

Everyone was house-arrested since the morning. When I told the power country that I wanted to travel here... bunkers were installed extracurricular my location wrong minutes,” Abdullah told reporters earlier the prayer.“Today, I came present without informing anyone. Today, too, they tried to halt us… I privation to cognize nether which instrumentality I was stopped... They accidental that this is simply a escaped country, but they deliberation that we are their slaves. We are nobody’s slaves.

We are lone the slaves of the radical here,” helium said.He accused the authorities of attempting to erase the representation of the 1931 martyrs and suppress nationalist remembrance. “They stopped america connected July 13, but for however agelong tin they proceed to bash so? We volition travel present whenever we privation and retrieve the martyrs,” helium said.Abdullah besides criticised section newspapers for allegedly downplaying oregon omitting sum of the location arrests of elected leaders. “Shame connected the sellouts who buried the story. I anticipation the size of the envelope was worthy it,” helium wrote connected X.Martyrs' Day, erstwhile an authoritative vacation successful Jammu and Kashmir, was removed from the calendar pursuing the abrogation of Article 370 successful 2019.