Report: (BJP Govt has turned occupied Kashmir into prison: CPI-M leader)

ISLAMABAD:Senior leader of Communist Party of India Mohammad Yusuf Tarigami has said that BJP government has turned occupied Kashmir into prison and graveyard.

According to a report, speaking at foundation-day programme of party in Kolkatta, he called upon Indian intellectuals and members of civil society to rise in protest against oppression of Kashmiri people after abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution.

He said these constitutional provisions had provided special status to the state and rights to Kashmiris.