Omar Abdullah

Rights group Amnesty International has described the PSA as a “lawless law”.

Residents and political parties have criticised the timing of the forced elections

Both leaders were earlier placed under house arrest on Sunday night

Now the democratic voice of hundreds of thousand of people of occupied Jammu & Kashmir is imprisoned under the deployment and presence of the innumerable number of soldiers, Omar Abdullah lamented.

India has also increased deployment of the army in the held valley.