Watch Viral Video: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on July 14 scaled a wall resisting police’s attempts to stop him and other National Conference leaders from visiting the Martyrs Graveyard and pay tributes to Kashmiri Muslim protesters who were shot dead by Maharaja Hari Singh’s Dogra forces in 1931
“Paid my respects and offered Fatiha at the graves of the martyrs of 13th July 1931. The unelected government tried to block my way forcing me to walk from Nawhatta chowk. They blocked the gate to Naqshband Sb shrine forcing me to scale a wall. They tried to physically grapple me but I was not going to be stopped today,” Abdullah said in a post on X accompanying the video.
Abdullah drove to the Martyrs’ Graveyard in the old city’s Nowhatta neighbourhood on Monday morning, a day after being locked indoors and prevented by police from visiting the graveyard
Abdullah lambasted the Lieutenant Governor and the police for trying to stop him and his entourage from entering the martyrs’ graveyard.
It is sad that on the instructions of the people who claim that their responsibility is the security and law and order, we were not allowed to offer ‘fateha’ here.
“It is sad that on the instructions of the people who claim that their responsibility is the security and law and order, we were not allowed to offer ‘fateha’ here. We were kept in house arrest (on Sunday). When gates opened, I expressed to the control room my desire to offer fateha. Within minutes, bunkers were put up and they were not removed late into the night,” Abdullah told reporters after paying tributes at the graveyard.