Incidentally, Shah was in Srinagar reviewing the progress on various development projects when the announcement of these separatist groups came.
"India and Pakistan have a real opportunity at the upcoming SCO Summit to break the ice and engage constructively. Hope they heed to it," said Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
The Protesters also raised anti-Pakistan slogans while pulling down the board. They also held a candle light protest outside the Hurriyat office.
In a statement, the police said the family sources of Geelani have said the letter purportedly issued by the octogenarian separatist leader is a 'fake' and has not been issued by him.
Meanwhile, Geelani also released a two-page letter in which he accused constituents of Hurriyat of inaction after the scrapping of Article 370.
Talking to media persons, Madhav said, “Whatever is happening in Karnataka is happening because of the ambitions of certain leaders of their own parties. There are leaders who are engineering dissent in the two parties. BJP has no involvement."
The situation for the BJP is not that comfortable as it was in the 2014 elections as the party is facing hurdles in the Jammu constituency where its candidate Jugal Kishore is seeking re-election.
The NIA on Monday questioned Farooq for nearly eight hours at its headquarters in Delhi after he appeared before the agency after avoiding two earlier summons.
Referring to the remarks of Mehbooba Mufti when she was the chief minister with the support of the BJP, Geelani said that humiliating remarks of “milk & toffee” are still echoing in the minds of people and every curb and war on the people were assigned to the dreams of her father.
ED sources also said the probe agency will impose a penalty and confiscate the illegal acquisition of foreign exchange recovered from J-K separatist leader Yasin Malik.
