Excelsior Correspondent
—Excelsior/Rakesh
JAMMU, Dec 17: Expressing strong resentment over the pro- secessionist polices of the Coalition Govt, particularly with regard to the announcement of compensation for Burhan Wani’s kin, the J&K National Panthers Party activists today held protest and blocked the Tawi bridge here resulting in suspension of vehicular traffic for some time.
Though the NPP had called for Jammu bandh today but there was hardly any impact of the bandh in the winter capital city. The protestors were raising slogans against the ruling alliance and held massive demonstration at Dogra Chowk causing massive traffic jam. Thereafter, the protestors led by NPP chairman Harshdev Singh, Balwant Singh Mankotia State president and Yash Paul Kundal State president of Young Panthers took out a procession which started from Dogra Chowk and passed through Vinayak Bazar, Gumat, Raghunath Bazar, Purani Mandi, Jain Bazar and then culminated at Panjtirth.
Prior to the protest, several groups of NPP workers held demonstrations at various places and torched effigies of BJP MLAs at different locations.
Addressing media persons, Harshdev said that the policy of appeasement followed by the State Govt towards the subversives and separatists was unacceptable. He said the BJP-PDP Govt had shocked the conscience of the nationalist forces by announcing compensation for the NoKs of the slain militant Khalid Muzzaffar Wani, and further putting the action of security forces in the dock. He said that the Govt move had not only emboldened the disruptive and other anti- national forces in the state but had created demoralization amongst the armed forces.
Questioning the policy under which the compensation had been announced for the slain militant, NPP leader said that the coalition was setting dangerous trends which could prove disastrous for the security of the State. Pointing towards some earlier “obnoxious” decisions of the present dispensation including vacation of land from Army, removal of bunkers, denial of separate KP townships and Sainik Colonies, Harshdev said that the incumbent Govt was treading a dangerous path.
Lambasting the BJP for its silence on the decision regarding ex-gratia to militants besides other outrageous moves of its ally, Singh said that the Saffron Party stood fully exposed for its hypocrisy.
Balwant Singh Mankotia and Yash Paul Kundal also addressed the gathering.
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