On Sunday, Congress leader and Member of Parliament from Wayanad, Kerala Rahul Gandhi said that opposition leaders and the press had got a taste of the current "draconian administration" in Jammu and Kashmir. Taking to social networking site Twitter, Gandhi said that it has been 20 days since the people of Jammu and Kashmir had their freedom and civil liberties curtailed.

#Congress leader #RahulGandhi on August 25 said #Opposition leaders and the press had got a taste of the current "draconian administration" in #JammuandKashmir.

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— IANS Tweets (@ians_india) August 25, 2019

On Saturday, a delegation of Opposition leaders, including Gandhi, were not allowed to enter Jammu and Kashmir and were asked by state administration officials to leave the Srinagar airport when they arrived there on August 24. Earlier, Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders had expressed their intent to visit the Valley to gain the first-hand experience of the situation following the abrogation of Article 370.