Srinagar, July 13 -- Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah acknowledged Martyrs Day on Sunday, amid heavy police deployment outside 40 Gupkar Road, Srinagar, the official residence of the J&K CM.

The Chief Minister on X shared pictures of police outside his residence, with armoured vehicles parked and movement restricted, as the regional parties, including the National Conference (NC), were denied permission to visit the martyrs' graveyard in Srinagar.

"To borrow from the late Arun Jaitley Sb - Democracy in J&K is a tyranny of the unelected. To put it in terms you will all understand today the unelected nominees of New Delhi locked up the elected representatives of the people of J-K," CM Abdullah wrote in a post on X.

"The une...