People protest, block road at Thannamandi

Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI,  May 25:  The people from  Thannamandi area today held protest against the R&B authorities  and blocked Shahdara  Sharief  road for more than an hour.
Reports said that people from  Upper Shahdara are demanding road connectivity through  Shahdara Sharief  area while R&B authorities planned to connect this area via  Pangai. They are strongly opposing the move of the R&B authorities and demanded that road connectivity should be given via Shahdara Sharief.
The agitating villagers blocked road for about one and half hour and disrupted movement of traffic. Later,  Tehsildar Thannamandi Rafiq Mughal and SHO Surinder Katyal reached there and they cleared the  road.  Tehsildar assured to take up the matter with the DC Rajouri and  SE R&B,  Rajouri-Poonch Circle.