Kolkata, July 14 -- West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday slammed the Jammu and Kashmir district administration for imposing restrictions on visiting Mazar-e-Shuhada (Martyrs' graveyard) in Srinagar's Naqshband Sahib. Questioning the administration, she said that such a restriction "snatches away democratic rights of a citizen."

"What is wrong in visiting the graveyard of martyrs? This is not only unfortunate, it also snatches the democratic right of a citizen. What happened this morning to an elected Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is unacceptable. Shocking. Shameful," she wrote in a post on X.

The Bengal CM's remarks come after J&K CM Omar Abdullah jumped over the boundary wall of Mazar-e-Shuhada in Srinagar to offer praye...