Srinagar | Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti wants her Rajya Sabha members to resign after the abrogation of Article 370 by the BJP government.
“‘While she was being shifted from her home to a guest house where she is under arrest, she passed a message saying resign or face expulsion,” a source close to the former CM said, acording to a report in HindustanTimes.
PDP has two Rajya Sabha MPs, Mir Fayaz and Nazir Ahmed Laway. They had torn up their clothes and constitution to protest the revoked Article 370 in the Rajya Sabha.
Fayaz said they were considering resigning but wanted to get in touch with the PDP leadership. “We have not been able to speak to anybody because communication lines are down. We will have a discussion.. and take a call,” he said.
Before she was placed under the house arrest, Mufti had condemned the abrogation, and called it “darkest day of democracy”.
“Decision of J&K leadership to reject 2 nation theory in 1947 & align with India has backfired. Unilateral decision of GOI to scrap Article 370 is illegal & unconstitutional which will make India an occupational force in J&K”, she had written on Twitter soon after the decision.
Meanwhile, official sources said that barring stray incidents of violence, the situation was peaceful in the Valley. With mobile, internet and cable lines snapped, people mostly remained indoors, news agency PTI reported.
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