IHK assembly witnesses ugly scenes over Abdullah's remarks

IHK assembly witnesses ugly scenes over Abdullah's remarks
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Pandemonium broke out in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly on Thursday. Trouble started when opposition Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) began to protest over state chief Omar Abdullah's statement that the state government was not a puppet in the hands of the federal government. Deputies of the Hindu nationalist opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and National Panthers Party (NPP) were physically evicted when they tried to storm the well of the House. The BJP legislature party has decided to boycott the remaining Assembly session, which will end on October 9.Add Jammu and Kashmir to Pakistan and then see the condition of the state. We just wanted a clarification (of the remarks made by state chief) when have been taken out of the assembly. Our Durga DasJi has got head injury. MLAs (Members of the Legislative Assembly) were marshaled and the way all the MLAs have been treated in the assembly, I believe nothing like this happened before in the democracy of the world. So, we are completely condemning it and we are continuously saying that we have decided that the workers and MLAs of Bharatiya Janata party (main opposition party of India) will boycott the assembly for coming three days. By any means, we are not ready to go inside the assembly, said Chaman Lal Gupta, a member of the BJP Legislative Party. Authorities in Srinagar began removing some security bunkers on October 5 as part of New Delhi's efforts to defuse tensions in the troubled region. Kashmir has been in a siege-like state of strikes, protests and curfew for months, threatening to undermine rule from New Delhi, which has been fighting an armed separatist rebellion in the region since 1989. More than 100 people have been killed and scores arrested in protests since June -- among the biggest since an armed separatist rebellion broke out in Kashmir in 1989.
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