Opposition leaders, media got taste of 'draconian administration': Rahul

Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi said that both opposition leaders and media got a taste of the draconian administration & brute force unleashed on the people of J & K when we tried to visit Srinagar on Saturday. A delegation of opposition parties led by Gandhi on Saturday was not allowed to step out of Srinagar airport, who wanted to take the stock of the situation days after the abrogation Article 370.

New Delhi:A day after being denied to visit Srinagar, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said both opposition politicians and the press have got a taste of what he called a 'draconian administration'.

"It's been 20 days since the people of Jammu and Kashmir had their freedom and civil liberties curtailed. Leaders of the Opposition and the Press got a taste of the draconian administration & brute force unleashed on the people of J & K when we tried to visit Srinagar yesterday," he tweeted along with a video, where he is seen unsuccessfully attempting to convince authorities that the delegation had arrived at the invitation of Governor Satya Pal Malik.

A delegation of opposition parties led by Gandhi was on Saturday not allowed to step out of Srinagar airport and sent back to Delhi.

A 12-member delegation made up of leaders from several parties such as Congress, CPI, DMK, RJD, TMC, NCP, and JDS which went to Srinagar to see the ground reality, days after the Centre abrogated provisions of Article 370 on August 5.

Before leaving from Delhi airport, the leaders had insisted that they were only going to assess the ground realities and not for creating any disturbance.