<p class="bodytext">PDP president Mehbooba Mufti Saturday alleged the police did not allow a meeting of the party's youth wing in Anantnag and also "roughed up" its members.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mehbooba, a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, also said the Centre wants to justify its "iron-fist approach by branding all Kashmiris as perpetrators of violence".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"PDP youth is not being allowed to conduct a meeting in Bijbehara today. The gates leading to Mufti sahab's grave have been locked & blocked with barbed wires. Can @JmuKmrPolice explain why were these young men roughed up?" Mehbooba said on Twitter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The PDP president said preventing the PDP youth from holding a meeting in South Kashmir “reinforces GOIs (Government of India's) strategy of not allowing any meaningful political engagement especially the one that involves Kashmiri youngsters”.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"GOI wants to justify their iron fist approach by branding all Kashmiris as perpetrators of violence," she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mehbooba said the daily encounters where militants are killed have become a "source of celebration" for the Centre, but the PDP does not believe in violence.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We want to fight peacefully & politically. By discouraging political activities GOI is pushing Kashmiris to the wall," she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Later, the activists of the party's youth wing protested the police's action and called for the restoration of electoral democracy.</p>
<p class="bodytext">PDP president Mehbooba Mufti Saturday alleged the police did not allow a meeting of the party's youth wing in Anantnag and also "roughed up" its members.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mehbooba, a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, also said the Centre wants to justify its "iron-fist approach by branding all Kashmiris as perpetrators of violence".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"PDP youth is not being allowed to conduct a meeting in Bijbehara today. The gates leading to Mufti sahab's grave have been locked & blocked with barbed wires. Can @JmuKmrPolice explain why were these young men roughed up?" Mehbooba said on Twitter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The PDP president said preventing the PDP youth from holding a meeting in South Kashmir “reinforces GOIs (Government of India's) strategy of not allowing any meaningful political engagement especially the one that involves Kashmiri youngsters”.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"GOI wants to justify their iron fist approach by branding all Kashmiris as perpetrators of violence," she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mehbooba said the daily encounters where militants are killed have become a "source of celebration" for the Centre, but the PDP does not believe in violence.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We want to fight peacefully & politically. By discouraging political activities GOI is pushing Kashmiris to the wall," she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Later, the activists of the party's youth wing protested the police's action and called for the restoration of electoral democracy.</p>