Mehbooba Mufti flays Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s arrest
The Hindu
The PDP leader had earlier said that what had “started in Jammu and Kashmir” had been “sadly met with an air of indifference” but had now “engulfed the entire country”
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti and Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) chief G.A. Mir on Tuesday protested against the Uttar Pradesh government’s action against Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
In a tweet, the former J&K Chief Minister criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party-led (BJP) government at the Centre. “GOI [Government of India] first gets a docile media to berate Congress and lament lack of a viable opposition but systematically ensures they don’t discharge their duties by illegal arrests. We are a democracy on paper but clearly the grim descent into a banana republic has begun,” Ms. Mufti said.

Former CM B.S. Yediyurappa had challenged the first information report registered on March 14, 2024, on the alleged incident that occurred on February 2, 2024, the chargesheet filed by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), and the February 28, 2025, order of taking cognisance of offences afresh by the trial court.