 Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 27: Dogra Sadar Sabha president and former minister Gulchain Singh Charak was detained ahead of his scheduled press conference in Jammu on Tuesday.
As per his son statement, the Gulchain Singh Charak had reached his party headquarters at Dogra Hall in the city to address a press conference and was picked up by police without citing any reason. Gambhir, who is also in charge of the youth wing of the party, said the press conference was convened by the Dogra Sadar Sabha to put forth some suggestions for safeguarding the interests of the people of Jammu region with regard to the re-organization of the state post abrogation of Article 370.
Gulchain Singh Charak told Early Times that "We have wholeheartedly welcomed the abrogation of special status to Jammu and Kashmir on August 5. We were organizing this conference to safeguard the Jammu's interest but suddenly police personnel detained him without citing any reason," Charak added.
On August 16, police had briefly detained state Congress chief spokesperson and former Member of Legislative Council Ravinder Sharma from party headquarters here to prevent him from addressing the media.
Several top leaders of Jammu and Kashmir, including state Congress president Ghulam Ahmed Mir, Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan founder Choudhary Lal Singh and National Conference provincial president Devender Singh Rana are under house arrest since the Centre revoked special status of the state under Article 370 and introduce a bill for bifurcation of the state into two union territories. Former chief ministers of the state, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti have also been put under house arrest after the Modi government abrogated Article 370. |
