Jammu, November 8 (Scoop News) – To register their protest against the surrender policy for youths who went to Pak occupied Kashmir for arms training and demanding that chief minister Omar Abdullah withdraw his statement on accession of Jammu and Kashmir with India, the state BJP sponsored bandh and Chakka Jam for three hours passed off peacefully even as normal life was affected here on Saturday.
The transport services remained off the roads and and shops and business establishments remained closed, hitting the normal life from 08:00am to 11:00 am in the city. There was very thin attendance in government offices, banks and educational institutions due to lack of transport facilities.
The activistsof BJP staged sit-ins in various parts of the city and blocked the Tawi bridge on Jammu-Srinagar national highway raising anti-government slogans. They also burnt effigies of government at several places.
Meanwhile BJP State President Shamsher Singh Manhas, while expressing gratitude to the people of whole of Jammu province for their full support to the bandh call of the party, said that today’s three hours bandh was in continuation of the programmes being chalked out to register protest against such developments in the state which are unconstitutional and in no way healthy for the national cause. He said that the State Chief Minister’s utterances over the accession of the state with Union of India, repeated discrimination with Jammu, decision to rehabilitate the militants, non-compensation to the sufferers of 2008 land row agitation, delay in holding delimitation in the state are some issues on which resentment is brewing among the Jammuites and the patriotic people.
Manhas said that BJP is not only a political party but a mission to work for strengthening the nationalist forces and agitate tor full integration of
The accession is unquestionable and final. Anyone making controversial utterances on the permanently settled issue should be treated as criminal and punish for the same. He said despite repeated claims of ending discrimination with
Manhas said that the Kashmir-centric approach of the successive governments in the state can be well judged from the fact that it has one package after other on one pretext or the other for Kashmir but not even a single penny has been paid as compensation to any one who suffered huge financial loses during 2008 historic agitation. Taking strong exception of the man handling of women activists of the party, Manhas said that the police action of resorting to lathi charge and causing injuries to them is highly condemnable. He said that about hundred women activists had blocked the Tawi bridge and the government used male police men to use force on them. He said that adequate number of police women should have been deployed. He said that the party will demand and inquiry as to why the women police was not deployed in adequate number and the policemen were allowed to man-handle the women activists.
He declared that the party activists will hold protest demonstrations and burn the effigies of the UPA and State Chief Minister from December first to seven at Mandal levels through out the State as next phase of our agitation.
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