The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Saturday did not allow the delegation of opposition leaders to venture out of Srinagar airport and has been sent back from there itself. The mediapersons who had gone to cover the delegation’s visit were manhandled by the security personnel at the airport.

Earlier in the day, a delegation consisting of Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi,

Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma and K.C. Venugopal; CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury, DMK’s Tiruchi Siva, veteran socialist leader Sharad Yadav, Trinamool Congress leader Dinesh Trivedi, CPI general secretary D. Raja, NCP’s Majeed Memon and JDS’ D. Kupendra Reddy had landed at Srinagar airport.