Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Feb 17: The Aam Aadmi Party workers are on hunger strike to demand a formal order from the Jammu and Kashmir administration to spare poor residents and shopkeepers from the ongoing anti-encroachment drive.
The AAP youth leader Mudasir Hassan said that their vice-president Nazir Ahmad Ittoo started the hunger strike last night but due to security reasons, they were not allowed to sit at the Press Colony. “We shifted to our office where he is on hunger strike,” he added.
“The hunger strike will continue till a formal order is issued by the administration,” he added.
The AAP leader said the administration was making statements day in and day out that poor people will not be affected by the demolition drive.
“We are asking the administration to issue a formal order to this effect,” he said, adding that the party was not against an anti-encroachment drive against rich and influential land grabbers.
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