JAMMU — Scores of Congress activists, including AICC General Secretary Syed Naseer Hussain and Pradesh Congress Committee chief Tariq Hameed Karra, were detained after police on Saturday stopped a proposed march to Lok Bhawan here, officials said.
Police took action after hundreds of Congress workers gathered at Maharaja Hari Singh Park and began marching towards Lok Bhawan as part of the party’s ‘Hamari Riyasat Hamara Haq’ movement seeking restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir, along with the ‘MGNREGA Bachao Sangram.’
Hussain (MP), Karra, AICC General Secretary and CLP leader G A Mir, Working President Raman Bhalla and AICC Secretary and Punjab MLA Pargat Singh were among the Congress leaders detained by police near Jewel Chowk, Congress chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma said.
Condemning the police action, he said the Congress had planned a peaceful march to Lok Bhawan to highlight public welfare issues, but the leaders were taken away in waiting police vehicles and lodged at district police lines. — (PTI)