PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesd🦩ay launched her campaign for the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha constituency with a road show here with a promise of raising the voice of voiceless people in Jammu and Kashmir.
"I have started my election campaign to raise voice against this enforced silence, the wanton arrests and atmosphere of suffocation that prevails her🦋e," Mufti told reporters after the road show here.
"Pulwama and Shopian have always supported us and I have s🔴tarted my campa𝓀ign from here. I hope people will make our voice, which talks about the wounds of Jammu and Kashmir, successful," she added.
The former chief minister, 𓆉who is up against National Conference candidate and influential Gujjar leader Mian Altaf Ahmad, alleged that a process of arresting youth has been started since the el𓆏ections were announced.
"Entire Kashmir has been converteཧd into a jail. No one is allowed to talk. Since the elections have been announced, the process of arrests has also started," Mu𝓡fti said.
"You must have heard that recently militants shot at a tourist guide in Shopian which is an unfortunate development. But it does not mean that you will arrest hundreds of youth and pla🌄ce them under the public safety act," ℱshe added.
Mufti said the situation was not peculiar to Shopian and P🦹ul🐻wama district.
"It is not about Pulwama and Shopian districts only, this atmosphere has been unleashed across Kashmir. If they are claiming that everything is normal, then why these wanton arrests?" she askജed.
The PDP president was accompanied by her party's youth president and candidate for Srinagar Lok Sabha seat Waheed Para.
"Waheed is here with me. He has suffered ♑everything in the past few years. I feel that he reflects Kashmir and what is happening with its people and its youth," she said.
Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat is going🍎 to polls in the 𓆏third phase of the elections on May 7.
