Shadow Correspondent
Jammu, July, 19
A strong protest demonstration was held by the Congress party at Jammu today over the arrest and detention of AICC General Secretary Smt. Priyanka Gandhi in U.P. today, when she was proceeding to Sonbhadra district to meet the victims as ten (10) people were killed and twenty eight (28) injured, while resisting an attempt to take possession of the land by village headman and his supporters two days ago.
The Demonstration was led by President JKPCC Shri Ghulam Ahmed Mir, Senior leaders of Congress including functionaries of PCC, DCC Jammu Urban & Rural, Youth Congress, Mahila Congress, Seva Dal, NSUI and other frontal wings, Corporators held a strong protest demonstration at Shaheedi Chowk Jammu against the Utter Pradesh government terming the action of detention and arrest of Smt. Gandhi as arbitrary and anti democratic, as she had gone to meet victims of Sonbadhra massacre.
The protestors raised slogans against BJP and UP government of Yogi Aditya Nath. They raised slogans in favour of Priyanka Gandhi and Congress party and slammed the BJP government for preventing her to proceed to meet victims.
Addressing media at the demonstration site, PCC Chief Shri Ghulam Ahmed Mir slammed BJP and UP government for the worst law and order situation in U.P and lashed out at the UP government for the anti democratic action of preventing Priyanka Gandhi and taking her into custody when she wanted to lead a small delegation to meet the victims of massacre.
He said that UP government prevented Smt. Gandhi to hide the worst failure of BJP government to maintain law and order and ensure the safety and security of poor people. He also lashed out at the incident of killing of three persons in Bihar and strongly condemned for the failure to maintain rule of law in various parts of the country.
Several prominent leaders joined the protest including Shri Raman Bhalla, Ravinder Sharma, Smt. Kanta Bhan, Rajnish Sharma, Shah Mohd Chowdhary, Manmohan Singh, Indu Pawar, Vikram Malhotra, Hari Singh Chib, Shabir Ahmed Khan, Manjit Singh, Vinod Sharma, Udhaey Chib, Dr. Rashid Choudhary, JMC Corporators Ch. Darwika, Gourav Chopra, Bhanu Mahajan, Ritu Choudhary, Ch. Mohiuddin, Pritam Singh, Inderjeet Kaur, Sobat Ali.Suresh Dogra, Pranab Shagotra, Pawan Raina, Narinder Sharma, Raqeeq Khan, Suresh Dogra, Rajiv Saraf, Rajveer Singh, S. Manjit Jatt, Sanjeev Pandha, Dr. R.K. Khajuria, Sahil Sharma, H.S. Metha, Rajinder Singh Pinky, Hoshiar Chib, Ricky Daotra, Gajan Singh, Varun Magotra.
