# Ex-PDP MLA Aijaz Mir detained ahead of Shopian farmers’ protest over crop insurance 2026-08-16T09:11:23+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Former PDP MLA Aijaz Ahmad Mir said he was detained by police at his residence in Zainapora, Shopian, on Sunday ahead of a planned protest demanding a comprehensive crop insurance scheme for apples and cherries. Mir told Greater Kashmir that police locked his gate and sealed roads to prevent him from leaving. The protest, which Mir called for at Ghanta Ghar, was over weather-related losses after recent hailstorms and windstorms damaged apple orchards across Kashmir. Despite his detention, Mir said the protest went ahead peacefully with hundreds of fruit growers gathering. PDP leader Iltija Mufti criticised the detention on X as an act of “high-handedness and intolerance”. She said horticulture, the backbone of Jammu and Kashmir’s economy, was suffering losses worth hundreds of crores due to the government’s “apathy” towards farmers. “Our farmers deserve a secure, dignified livelihood,” she said. ## Coverage - greaterkashmir.com This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Aijaz Mir, Iltija Mufti, Jammu and Kashmir, PDP, Shopian Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/ex-pdp-mla-aijaz-mir-detained-ahead-of-shopian-farmers-protest-over-crop-insurance/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/ex-pdp-mla-aijaz-mir-detained-ahead-of-shopian-farmers-protest-over-crop-insurance/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/