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'It's Gunda Raj', tweets Mehbooba Mufti claiming PDP leaders detained ahead of DDC poll counting

New Delhi
December 22, 2020

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) claimed that its three senior leaders were detained on Monday, December 21, a day before the counting of votes in the District Development Council (DDC) polls in Jammu and Kashmir. Taking to Twitter, PDP President Mehbooba Mufti said three senior leaders of the party - Sartaj Madni, Mansoor Hussain and Naeem Akhtar � were "arbitrarily detained".

While Madni and Hussain were detained earlier in the day, Akhtar was taken into custody late in the evening. However, officials here neither confirmed nor denied the detention of the PDP leaders.

Mehbooba said, "Total lawlessness as PDP's Sartaj Madni & Mansoor Hussain have been arbitrarily detained today on the eve of DDC election results.