The by-election to the Anantnag Assembly seat, from where Mehbooba is seeking election will be held on June 22. “The same Mehbooba, who advocated political engagement and dialogue with Hurriyat leaders, is now supervising a selective crackdown on those separatist leaders who are more open and stinging in their criticism of her policies and U-turns. National Conference working president Omar Abdullah on Monday accused Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti of supervising a “selective crackdown” on separatist leaders based on their level of public opposition to her party’s recurring U-turns ahead of the by-poll to Anantnag constituency. The former Chief Minister was addressing party workers at his Beerwah assembly constituency. Today she has gone from that self-righteous moral pedestal to the role of personally directing arrests and using almost three-decade-old cases to send separatist leaders to jail,” he said.

Source: Indian Express June 13, 2016 17:05 UTC