Jammu, May 3 -- Days after the Jammu and Kashmir High Court set aside his detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Doda (East), Mehraj Malik, on Sunday alleged that the Kashmir Valley is in a "bad state" where voices are being "systematically silenced."

Addressing a public gathering in Doda following his release, MLA Malik as per news agency Kashmir News Service (KNS) claimed that only "one class, one area, one constituency" gets attention in the Union Territory, while dissent is being crushed across the rest of the region.

"We have always seen what is happening in Kashmir. Voices are being silenced. Is it not necessary that the air flows through these mountains? It will flow," Malik said without direc...