Amid Talk Of Centre Banning Hurriyat, BJP Says 'Long Overdue'

The Hurriyat Conference factions are literally defunct and leaderless after the government ended Jammu and Kashmir's special status in 2019.

The BJP says a ban on Hurriyat Conference in Kashmir is long overdue amid reports that the centre is considering a ban on the separatist amalgam and declare it an unlawful organisation. The Hurriyat Conference factions are literally defunct and leaderless after the government ended Jammu and Kashmir's special status in 2019. The hardliner faction, which was headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani, is leaderless and its constituents have disappeared. Geelani, 92, quit Hurriyat in June last year. His successor, Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai, who was in jail, died in custody this May. On Monday, a domestic help at Syed Ali Shah Geelani's home-cum-office removed the signboard of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat, the extremist Hurriyat Conference faction led by Geelani. For the last thirty years, this was the Hurriyat epicentre at Srinagar's Hyderpora neighbourhood.