Lok Sabha Election 2024: PDP Workers Detained, Cellular Services Suspended: Mehbooba Mufti on Protest

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief and Lok Sabha candidate from Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat Mehbooba Mufti staged a dharna (protest), alleging that her party's workers and polling agents were being detained by the police. She said that the police had detained them without citing any reason. 

Mehbooba Mufti, while staging the protest in Anantnag, asked: "Why are you [police] harassing my workers? The detention of my party workers started last night. [Atal Bihari] Vajpayeeji used to hold free and fair elections. But now..." . She further said that PDP workers were being locked up everywhere in Anantnag. "The Lieutenant Governor should have told me earlier not to contest the elections… I am also getting complaints of malfunction in the machines," Mufti said.