Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 24: In support of their party campaign to seek restoration of Statehood at the earliest, several Congress leaders and activists to take out a protest march, here today.
The protestors were led by JKPCC chief Tariq Hameed Karra accompanied by AICC General Secretary and CLP leader G A Mir besides working presidents Tara Chand, Raman Bhalla, DCC President Manmohan Singh Balwan Singh, Yogesh Sawhney, Th Hari Singh Chib, Kanta Bhan, Ved Mahajan, Th Balbir Singh, Rajnish Sharma, Shabir Ahmed Khan, Satish Sharma, Amrit Bali Sanjeev Panda and several other leaders.
Hundreds of Congress and Mahila Congress, youth Congress, Seva Dal, OBC and other frontal wings participated, carrying banners, raising strong slogans for restoration of statehood.
Addressing the gathering and the protestors, JKPCC chief reiterated the demand for early restoration of Statehood as promised, time and again by the Centre Government including Prime Minister and Home Minister but after elections BJP has betrayed people.
“BJP wants to rule by proxy and enjoy power at the cost of the people’s mandate to an elected government,” he said and termed it as an insult to people of Jammu and Kashmir and appealed people to support the movement for statehood which is people’s movement.
He said that movement shall be carried further till goal is achieved and said that next few days will witness such protest march in different parts of Jammu city.
Among others who participated in the protest included Chief Spokesperson Ravinder Sharma, Narinder Sharma, Suresh Dogra, Rajveer Singh, Gajan Singh, H S Mehta, Sahil Sharma, Vandana Sharma, Vijay Sharma,Sonu Dogra ,Madan Dogra, Rajinder Happy, Parveen Akhtar, Rajiv Saraf,Vinay Sharma, Janak Mehra, Dr R K Khajuria, Rajesh Sharma, Atul Sharma, Som Nath, Pawan Singh, M S Bedi, Anirudh Sawhney, Dewan Chand Divyansh, Fiaz Ahmed, Dr Sohaib Manhas, Sunny Parihar and B S Wazir.
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