Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday saidthere is no democracy in Jammu and Kashmir and people are living in fear afterthe Centre scrapped the state's special status on August 5.Azad was talking tothe media as he concluded his six-day tour of the state."There isdisappointment in Kashmir and the despair is also prevalent among the people inJammu province. Except 100 or 200 people of the ruling party (BJP), nobody ishappy (over the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the state into twoUnion Territories)," the former chief minister told reporters beforeleaving for Delhi.Azad, who had on Tuesday arrived in Jammu on the second-legof his tour, had said the situation in Kashmir is "very bad".TheCongress leader had reached Srinagar on Friday on his maiden visit to theValley after the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status on August 5.Histhree earlier bids to reach Srinagar had failed as he had been turned back fromthe airport by the authorities.

I have not seen such a terror of the administration anywherein the world. Democracy is nowhere in the state after the change in its status.It has vanished from the state," Azad said.

He claimed that the people are afraid of talking, feeling thatsomeone was going to tip-off the government about it."With the change inthe status, the voices have also been suppressed and there is no place forfreedom of speech, freedom of expression or freedom of agitation," hesaid.

"Even if somebody is talking about normal protests overthe demands for electricity and water, he is asked which jail he wants to go inIndia," the Congress leader alleged.Soon after his arrival here fromKashmir where he spent four days, Azad had said, "I have not even beenallowed by the administration to visit 10 per cent of the places where I hadplanned to go in the valley during my stay there."

Azad's visit became possible after the Supreme Court onSeptember 16 allowed him to tour the state.A bench, headed by Chief Justice ofIndia Ranjan Gogoi, had allowed the leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabhato visit four districts -- Srinagar, Jammu, Baramulla, Anantnag -- to meetpeople.The bench had been told by Azad's counsel and senior advocate A MSinghvi that the Congress leader wants to meet people and inquire about theirwelfare.In his petition filed in his "personal capacity", Azad hadtold the Supreme Court that he had tried to visit the state thrice, but wasturned back from the airport.A number of delegations representing varioussections of the society including traders, transporters and border residents metAzad at his residence here.

Azad also visited traders of Raghunath Bazar, Purani Mandi,Residency Road and other areas of the city to know about their difficulties inthe prevailing situation in the state, a congress spokesman said.