Srinagar, Nov. 20 -- Congress has demanded that sitting MP from Srinagar and NC Patriarch Dr Farooq Abdullah must be allowed to attend the ongoing parliament session so that peoples' issues could be raised from the highest podium of democracy.

Talking to KNS, Congress spokesman from New Delhi, M. Afzal termed the present situation in Kashmir precarious and worrisome, questioning the government's logic of claiming normalcy on one side and prolonging the detention of political leaders on the other side.

He said that if the government on one side claims that political process is being reinitiated in Kashmir, why Srinagar's sitting MP and veteran political figure of the erstwhile state is being barred from attending the parliament session. ...