Through Lockdown, BJP Wants To Undemocratically Remote Control Politics In Kashmir scroll.in

More than 70 days after New Delhi decided to unilaterally alter the status of Jammu and Kashmir within the Indian Republic, willfully ignoring the voices of citizens and their representatives, civil liberties remain severely restricted in the erstwhile state.

The Centre has deigned to open up cell phone access for a portion of the population, although many continue to find it difficult to communicate. Prepaid phone connections are still down and no access to the internet. This came even as Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was saying that the right to the internet is “non-negotiable”, just days after his own home minister, Amit Shah, said that cutting all phone connections did not amount to trampling on human rights.