Congress member Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday lashed out at the Modi Government for its Kashmir policy and lamented that several leaders in the new created Union Territory is under detention and also are being “shunted out” from one place to another.

“….It has been nearly four months since Home Minister (AmitShah) introduced Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill. Since that time our own citizens, political leaders and one of our own members has been living under aclamped down. He has been living under detention,” Mr Tharoor said in Lok Sabha while initiating discussions on the Supplementary Demands for Grants.

He said “in the absence of any return to normalcy” in Jammuand Kashmir, the allocation as proposed by the Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman in the Supplementary Demands for fiscal 2019-20 would mean “verylittle”.

He pointed out that as many as 30 political leaders havebeen kept under detention and some of them in ‘solitary’.

His reference to the likes of Mehbooba Mufti of PDP andNational Conference leaders Omar Abdullah and Farooq Abdullah, also a formerChief Minister of the ‘united’ Jammu and Kashmir.

“These leaders are now being shunted from one location toanother,” he said, adding there has been also allegation of manhandling bypolice as well.