In occupied Kashmir, complete shutdown will be observed as a mark of complete boycott in the areas where India is going to stage the final phase of sham local bodies’ elections, on Monday.

Call for the strike has been given by the Joint Resistance Leadership comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik.

The leadership has urged people to stage total boycott of the sham elections.

Strict restrictions have been imposed across the territory by the Indian forces to make the election drama a success.

The authorities continued to place Hurriyat leaders Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Mohammad Umar Farooq, Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai and Muhammad Yasin Malik, besides hundreds of other youth and activists, under house arrest or in jails ahead of the fourth phase of the bogus elections.

In a statement in Srinagar, All Parties Hurriyat Conference  strongly condemned the fresh arrest spree and night raids carried out by Indian troops particularly in poll-bound areas of Srinagar, Baramulla, Pulwama, Shopian, Islamabad and Gandarbal districts.