New Delhi: In the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, a member of the PDP demanded that the detained leaders be released immediately after the removal of most of the provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution giving special status to Jammu and Kashmir. Raising the issue during the zero hours, PDP member Mir Mohammad Fayaz said that about a year ago, on August 5, most provisions of Article 370 were lifted from Jammu and Kashmir and the state was divided into two union territories. He said, “Thousands of leaders were under house arrest at that time. Some of these were released but some are still under house arrest or held in jail under the Public Safety Act. ”
Fayaz said that his party president Mehbooba Mufti is also one of these leaders. Fayaz said, “Mehbooba has been imposed for the third time under the sections of the Public Safety Act. They are accused that the country is in danger because of them. The PDP once had a government in Jammu and Kashmir in alliance with a major constituent of the ruling coalition at the Center. He demanded immediate release of the leaders detained under all detention and public safety laws. BJP’s Surendra Singh Nagar raised the issue of the list of official languages of Jammu and Kashmir, demanding that Gujari language and Pahari language should also be included in this list.
Nagar said that 14 percent of people in Jammu and Kashmir speak Gujari language and six percent people speak Pahari language. Vivek Thakur of the same party said that the whole world is troubled by the Kovid-19 epidemic and its vaccine is eagerly awaited. Thakur said that efforts are on to make Kovid vaccine in various countries. Vaccine trials are also going on somewhere. He said, “Three such companies are also trying to make Kovid vaccine which is the source country of Corona virus (China). They are undergoing vaccine phase III trials. ”
Thakur wanted to know whether the government would also approach these companies for the Kovid vaccine or whether the companies established in the country would be given priority. Nabam Rebiya of BJP itself demanded in the Zero Hour that Arunachal Pradesh has not got special constitutional protection till it came into existence as a state in 1986, while some states in the Northeast have got this facility. Congress members KC Venugopal, Ami Yagnik, DMK’s M Shanmugam, BJP’s Satishchandra Dubey, Trinamool Congress’s Arpita Ghosh and YSR Congress Party’s V Vijayasai Reddy raised various issues of public importance through special mention during the zero hour itself.
