Mubashir Bukhari
Srinagar (NVI): Hours after the Jammu and Kashmir administration revoked the Public Safety Act (PSA) against former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, he said he would not speak on political matters until everyone else is released.
In his first address to media here since his detention under the PSA in August last year, Abdulah said, “Today I don’t have words. I am free. Now, I will be able to go to Delhi and attend Parliament and speak for all.”
Abdullah, the leader of National Conference, addressed Kashmir as a ‘state’ repeatedly in his first address. “I am free, I am free, I hope my people will also be free,” he said in a brief address from the rooftop of his residence here.
“Freedom is not complete until leaders, including Omar, Mehbooba Mufti and other detained in the state or other parts of the country are released,” he said.
Abdullah walked out of his Gupkar residence today, seven months after he was put under preventive detention following the abrogation of Article 370 by the Central Government, in August last year.
