MUMBAI MIRROR (August 31, 2019)

Actress-politician Urmila Matondkar has said that her husband Mohsin Akhtar Mir hasn’t been able to communicate with his parents, who live in Kashmir, for the past 22 days.

“The question is not about abrogating Article 370, but the manner in which it was done,” she told the media, adding that her in-laws suffer from diabetes and high blood pressure.

She added, “Both my father-in-law and mother-in-law are diabetic and have high blood pressure. Today is the 22nd day since Article 370 was abrogated and neither my husband nor I have been able to speak to them. Moreover, we have no clue if they have medicines available at home or not.”

Earlier this month, Home Minister Amit Shah announced in Rajya Sabha that the government has decided to revoke Article 370 of the Constitution which grants special status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The government had also announced its decision to split the region into two Union Territories—Jammu and Kashmir, which will have a legislature, and Ladakh, which will be without a legislature.