SRINAGAR: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday accused the BJP of turning the issue of the ‘martyrs’ of 1931 into a communal matter, saying those killed by the Dogra Maharaja’s soldiers sacrificed their lives fighting the “autocratic rule”.
The former chief minister paid tributes to the 22 protestors, who died on this day in 1931, at the PDP headquarters here.
The authorities had placed restrictions around the martyr’s graveyard in Naqshband Sahib area of the city to prevent people, including politicians, from paying their tributes.