Jammu and Kashmir police on Tuesday foiled a protest march organised by the opposition People’s Democratic Party over the National Conference government’s “failure” to fulfil its promises and betraying the public trust.
Several party leaders and workers of the PDP have been detained by the police, officials said. The leaders and activists assembled at the party headquarters near the Sher-e-Kashmir Park here and tried to march towards Lal Chowk city centre to protest the government’s “unfulfilled promises and continued betrayal of Public trust."
Despite peaceful protests, police officials asked protesters to disperse; however, reluctant to leave the economic hub of the city of Srinagar, police later stopped them and detained several leaders and activists, the officials said.
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The detained leaders included some of the top leaders of the party, like PDP general secretaries Abdul Haq Khan and Mohammad Khurshid Alam and senior leaders Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura and Syed Basharat Bukhari.
Apart from the men, some women leaders and activists were also detained by the police under the pretext of public safety. Before being taken away by police, Hanjura described the police action as a “dictatorship” by the government.
“We tried to take out a protest march against the non-availability of drinking water, the increase in electricity tariffs, and to demand the return of our youth languishing in jails outside J&K. But look at this dictatorship of the LG administration and the Omar Abdullah government that we are not even allowed to protest peacefully,” he said.
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