How TV media's vilification is alienating pro-India voices in Kashmir: Waheed Para speaks out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY6OjEZTyTA
newslaundry Sep 15, 2024 People’s Democratic Party leader Waheed ur Rehman Para, who has been the party’s youth face, was booked under the stringent UAPA in 2020 and spent two years in incarceration. Now, he is fighting the assembly poll from Pulwama. about the Delhi media’s portrayal of mainstream Kashmiri politician – “We paid the price for supporting India.
the union government’s counter-terrorism agenda_ “When encounters happen here it is run at national level to show we are dealing with Kashmiri Muslims”. “there is a stereotype attached to Pulwama”.
about the “Hindutva constituency” , Para remarks that “Kashmir became a casualty”. the PDP-BJP alliance is hurting his party’s chances in this election. “They finally accused me of organising protests against my own government.”