SRINAGAR:PDP MLA Waheed Para on Wednesday said that while the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir were fought to end silence, fear and suffocation, fresh orders were issued to monitor and restrict social media in the Union territory.

“The election in Jammu & Kashmir was fought to end silence, fear, and suffocation. People didn’t vote for control, they voted for dignity, and the right to speak without fear. One of the loudest promises made was to scrap the media, social media gag policy,” he said in a post on X.

“Yet today, fresh orders to monitor and restrict social media are being issued selectively only in Jammu & Kashmir, nowhere else in India,” Para’s post read further.