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Reacting strongly to the government move for invoking the Public Safety Act against former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah, Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said detention without charges is the worst abomination in a democracy.
Shocked and devastated by the cruel invocation of the Public Safety Act against Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti and others.
— P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) February 7, 2020
In a series of tweets, Chidambaram said, “Shocked and devastated by the cruel invocation of the Public Safety Act against Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti and others”.
“Detention without charges is the worst abomination in a democracy. When unjust laws are passed or unjust laws are invoked, what option do the people have than to protest peacefully?” the former home minister tweeted.
Detention without charges is the worst abomination in a democracy
When unjust laws are passed or unjust laws are invoked, what option do the people have than to protest peacefully?
— P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) February 7, 2020
Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chidambaram said, “The PM says that protests will lead to anarchy and laws passed by Parliament and legislatures must be obeyed. He has forgotten history and the inspiring examples of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela”.
Unjust laws must be opposed through peaceful resistance and civil disobedience. That is satyagraha, he added.
Mufti and Abdullah, besides two political stalwarts from the Peoples Democratic Party and its arch-rival National Conference, were booked under the stringent Public Safety Act by the administration , officials in the union territory said.
