 The facts of the matter is that yesterday both Comrade Raja and I wrote separate letters to the governor of JNK. Telling the governor that we are going to visit today, meet our comrades, and I had mentioned that Comrade Yusuf Tarigami is not keeping good health, he is in need of some medicines, so it is necessary for me to meet him. On that basis we left for Srinagar this morning. At the airport we were met by a posse of policemen who very promptly and very efficiently took our bags away and they led us into a room there. Then they said that our orders are to send you back in the same flight in which we came. We said nothing doing, we are not going. We have come here with return tickets, our return flight, whenever it goes we will go by that flight and in the meanwhile we want to go into the city and meet our comrades and come back. But that they didn't allow, then I said I will be under detention. Or where is the order of detaining us? Then a magistrate was summoned, a lady magistrate who came with the orders where it is mentioned that specifically by my name saying that not allowed to proceed into the city, even if I were to proceed into the city escorted by the police, untoward incidents can occur and therefore the question of law and order should not be done. Then information that Raja is coming yesterday itself, so they were wondering what happened, but the fact of the matter was it is a judicial and a police custody. So we stayed, in protest we stayed there for four hours and when our return flight time was there then we return in that flight. This is what has happened. Now what we have done was through a proper information given to the authorities concern. The reason for going there is also something you cannot deny, the general secretaries of two national parties to meet their own comrades in the state of Jammu and Kashmir in Srinagar. And particularly when I mentioned, Yusuf Tarigami is a four-time MLA and MLA is six years in JNK. So for 24 years he has been elected as an MLA repeatedly. He is a very tall known figure but they refused to let him go, so finally we could ascertain that he is under house arrest and they assured that they will send the necessary medicines etc etc. So then I wrote a letter and I insisted the letter be delivered to him, which they espied the police in charge of that district and he assured that it would be delivered but let us see everything is under censorship. So the point is that this is our democratic right to meet our own comrades, all citizens of India, all in a purely open activity. It was done with full information and full knowledge of everyone but yet not being allowed to go in, that really shows that there is something that is not being, the truth is not out with all of us. Why is it that, I mean if everything is all okay according to what the central government is claiming, if all is well in Kashmir then why were we stopped and why were we not allowed to meet our people but it was openly declared activity. That is the serious violation of our democratic rights and all that we are saying is that let us allow us to meet our own comrades and our own leaders but that was not permitted. So that is what happened today and from this we will all have to draw the necessary conclusions of what is happening, I mean from all the talks we could have with people, random people and with the officials in the airport, I mean things are under complete control of the central forces. I do not know the state forces and the state authorities, what role they have there now but it is completely under the central control and that is what it is likely to stay, that is what it appears from what they are saying. But the fact is that why was, why none of them were even taken into confidence before all this happened was something is a constant question amongst those people who were there who flew with us, who were asking us in the flights and also in the airport there. So this in a nutshell is what happened, so four days, four hours under their custody in protest we both stayed and refused to come back by the same returning flight and then we came back on our original schedule. Friends as Comrade Sitaram explained, we went there properly informing the governor, we wrote separate letters, we told the governor in our letters we as general secretaries, separate letters. I wrote as general secretary of CPI, I am going there to meet my party leaders, my party members, the administration should allow me to reach out to my party people. But as soon as we landed there, some security people came promptly took our bags and led us to a room, we were kept in a room. We were not even allowed to move around the airport lawns or interact with ordinary common people. We were asked to sit in the room, remain in the room, that is what happened and what I understand from my observations the situation is not normal at all. It is very tense, there is fear and the situation is very scary, even the employees they admit the government the way it did the scrapping of article 370 should not have been done in such a way, people were not taken into confidence, the political parties were not taken into confidence, what is going to be the future we do not know. So I think there is a great amount of anxiety, uncertainty in the minds of the people about the future, whatever the prime minister spoke addressing the nation. People have their own doubts why the state was downgraded, this is what during our travel in plane or talking to some employees we could gather and this is what government should understand. And we have not gone there as underground activists, we went there as leaders of political parties and general secretaries of our respective parties and how come they did not allow us to go out and meet our own comrades. That way even Mr. Gulam Nabi Azad was kept here only sir, they were telling and he is the former chief minister of German Kashmir, he is from that state, how come he was not allowed to go out, I cannot understand and in our case also we informed the governor and why we were not allowed, rather we were detained, confined to one room and they asked us to sit, remain in that room not to move here and there, even to go to office they didn't allow. This is what is going on in German Kashmir and the whole country should understand the deteriorating situation in German Kashmir, the whole nation should rise in support of the people of German Kashmir. It is not for the people of German Kashmir, it is for the people of the entire country we should stand up and we should speak for the constitutional morality, the constitution and democracy and the left parties will continue to protest, continue to raise our voice and we will not be succumbed by BJP and its government. They asked me the opposition leaders are going on creating problems, why you should go to German Kashmir, I told them German Kashmir is part of our nation and India doesn't belong to BJP, India belongs to all of us and we have every right to go any part of the country and meet people and BJP should understand it should conduct itself as a responsible political party, not questioning the property of other political parties, the morality of other political parties, this is what we thought we should tell you at this point of time.