"Not allowed to leave guest house for protest, press conference against Mehraj Malik's arrest": AAP MP Sanjay Singh

Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], September 11 (ANI): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh on Thursday alleged that the Jammu and Kashmir police is not allowing him to leave the government guest house to protest against the arrest of fellow party leader Mehraj Malik.

Sharing the visuals on X, Sanjay Singh called the police action dictatorship.

Dictatorship is at its peak. I am in Srinagar at this moment. Raising one voice for rights and protesting in a democracy is our constitutional right, he wrote.

Singh added that the AAP leaders were to hold a protest and a press conference in Srinagar.

The AAP MP wrote, Today, there was a press conference and sit-in in Srinagar against the illegal arrest of Mehraj Malik, but the government guest house has been turned into a police camp. I am not being allowed to leave the guest house with Imran Hussain and companions.

Earlier on Wednesday, Sanjay Singh met the family of Mehraj Malik in Jammu before travelling to Srinagar.

Met the father and brother of Mehraj Malik in Jammu. I have reached Srinagar, and tomorrow a meeting with party workers will be held to decide the plan for the upcoming struggle, Singh wrote in a post on X.

In an earlier post, Singh alleged that party MLA Mehraj Malik had been unfairly booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA), claiming it was retaliation for raising people issues in his constituency.

He said that attempts by the BJP administration to crush AAP in Jammu and Kashmir would only make it stronger.

AAP MLA Mehraj Malik was booked under a serious law like PSA only because he raised his voice for building hospitals, schools, and roads in his constituency. From this historic land of Jammu and Kashmir, I want to make it clear to the BJP administration and the Prime Minister that the more you try to crush the Aam Aadmi Party, the stronger it will become, Singh wrote.

The visit came after the detention of Malik, an AAP MLA from the Doda constituency, who was booked under the provisions of the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978, on Monday for activities being prejudicial to the maintenance of public order. (ANI)

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