Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Tushar Gandhi on Friday said the removal of special status for Jammu and Kashmir was done in an "autocratic manner" and alleged that democracy is being repressed in the country.
The government on Monday revoked provisions of Article 370 that gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir and moved a separate bill to bifurcate the state into union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.
"No democratic process was followed in the revocation of Article 370. It was done in an autocratic manner. If people of Kashmir too wanted this, then why are troops in large number deployed there," Tushar Gandhi said at a programme here organised by organised by Gandhi Virasat Manch.
Democracy is being repressed in the country, he alleged.
About religious intolerance, Gandhi said, "People are forced to say 'Jai Shri Ram'. Where is devotion ('bhakti') in this?"
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