NEW DELHI, Aug. 18 -- Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra hit out at the government, asking on what grounds her party's leaders were taken into custody in Jammu and Kashmir.
She asked whether it was a crime to speak to the media after the state unit of the Congress was prevented from addressing a press conference on Friday as police detained its chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma and place its Jammu and Kashmir president Ghulam Ahmed Mir under house arrest. "On what grounds have Congress leaders in J&K been arrested? Is it a crime to speak to the media? It's now 15 days since ex CM's who respected and abided by the Constitution of India just like our leaders, have been under arrest (sic)," she said on Twitter.
"Even their families have ...