Jammu Tawi, May 2 -- Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday attacked the BJP-led Centre and accused it of undermining the locals' rights by granting power projects, land, sapphire mines, lithium deposits, and water resources to outsiders.

She said the Centre has turned J&K into a "prison," where freedom of speech is curtailed and people are repressed.

Mufti dismissed Union Home Minister Amit Shah's remarks on restoring statehood to Jammu and Kashmir as a mere "rhetoric to win votes" and said his party had snatched the region's identity and knocked its people down.

"BJP converted Jammu and Kashmir into a prison. Nobody can talk freely here. Nobody is happy in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Neither Dogra of Jammu no...