Srinagar, Sept. 8 -- The arrest of the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) lone MLA in Jammu and Kashmir, Mehraj Malik, under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) has triggered condemnation from several lawmakers from various parties.
The PDP MLA Waheed Parra said such draconian laws are weaponised to silence political voices & crush dissent.
"Strongly condemn the use of PSA against MLA Mehraj Malik. Such draconian laws are weaponised to silence political voices & crush dissent. Such authoritarian measures are no way to resolve differences in a democracy," Parra said on X.
People's Conference President and MLA Handwara Sajad Lone strongly denounced the slapping of the PSA on Malik, describing it as "yet another assault on the democratic fabric of J...