said the party would focus on safeguarding Article 370 and Article 35A of the Constitution of India. On 18 June, he and Engineer Rashid announced that their parties, JKPM and Awami Ittehad Party, will be entering into a political alliance called Peoples United Front. The main points of its agenda were the resolution of the Kashmir dispute based on the wishes of Kashmiris, peaceful relations between India and Pakistan, protecting the state's special status, return of Kashmiri Pandits and release of all politicians from detention. Faesal was one of the political leaders detained after the revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. As he tried to take a flight to Turkey on 14 August 2019, he was stopped and later taken into preventive detention. He was first kept at the Centaur Hotel in Srinagar and then shifted to the MLA hostel where he spent the next six months. Faesal later in August filed a habeas corpus plea before the Delhi High Court, stating that he was going to the United States to complete his studies, but had been illegally detailed. The government of the union territory stated that he had no student visa, and upon being brought to Srinagar Airport, provoked the people to protest against India. It additionally claimed that he had refused to guarantee that he won't create any such situation again if released. The plea was withdrawn by his wife after she met him in September 2019. He was booked under the Public Safety Act in February 2020, being accused of subtly advocating separatism. The detention under PSA was extended by three months on 13 May. On 3 June, PSA against Faesal was revoked and he was released after a detention of 10 months. He was however put under house arrest on the very next day. Faesal has also written for the Greater Kashmir newspaper and was a part of Jammu & Kashmir's Right to Information movement along with Dr. Raja Muzaffar Bhat. JKPM announced on 10 August 2020 that Faisal had told them he couldn't remain in politics any longer and asked to be relieved from being a member of the party, which they acceded to. Chairman Javaid Mustafa Mir was chosen as his replacement. Controversies Faesal Shah wrote bold social media posts even as a bureaucrat. In July 2018, when he was a civil servant, he had posted a tweet, writing: "Population +patriarchy