CPI (M) condemns Martyrs’ Graveyard related incident

Srinagar, Jul 14: The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has come down heavily on the BJP-led central government and the J&K administration over what it called “undemocratic and authoritarian” actions taken on the occasion of Martyrs’ Day in the Valley.

In a statement, the CPI(M) condemned the reported manhandling of Jammu and Kashmir’s elected Chief Minister Omar Abdullah at the revered Naqshband Sahib graveyard in Srinagar, where he had gone to pay homage to the 22 Kashmiri martyrs who were shot dead by the Dogra army on July 13, 1931.

The Left party also denounced the house arrest of several senior political leaders, including CPI(M) Central Committee member and J&K legislator Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, which prevented them from visiting the graveyard to mark the solemn occasion.