Congress takes out Mashal rally in Jammu, protests in Udhampur

JAMMU: Senior AICC leader and Incharge party affairs in Jammu Kashmir & Ladakh UTs Rajni Patil on Monday pushed full force into to the ongoing Congress ‘Jai Bharat Satyagrah ‘ by leading a protest rally in Udhampur town and Mashal procession in Jammu city today, in which hundreds of workers and leaders participated.

JKPCC president Vikar Rasool Wani, AICC joint secy co- incharge Manoj Yadav, working president Raman Bhalla besides Pranab Shagotra, Ex MLA & DCC president Krishan Chand Bhagat Narinder Sharma, Shakeel Shah, Bhupinder Singh, Rajveer Singh, Vijay Sharma, Jatin Sharma and other senior leaders joined in Udhampur while in Jammu a host of senior leaders joined them.

They included Ex-PCC chief GA Mir, Ex-DyCM Tara Chand, Mula Ram, Ravinder Sharma, Balwan Singh, Yogesh Sawhney Manmohan Singh, SS Channi, Rajnish Sharma, Indu Pawar, T S Bajwa, Balbir Singh, Shabir Khan, Ved Mahajan, Gurbachan Rana, Hari Singh Chib, Vinod Sharma, Dwarka Chaudhary, Bhushsn Dogra, Uday Chib, Shashi Sharma Shiv Kumar, Naresh Sharma and others. Similar protests were held at various places across the J&K UT to intensify the nationwide movement against Modi led BJP Government.

An impressive Mashal procession was taken out by the party from Shaheedi Chowk towards main Jammu city today evening, raising slogans in favour of Congress leadership especially Rahul Gandhi and highlighting the blame of BJP attack on democracy, constitution and suppressing the voice of opposition from raising people’s issues.

Led by Rajni Patil and PCC leadership, the processionists marched carrying Mashals & flags, raising slogans’ like -Lok Tantar ki Hatya band karo. They also demanded JPC in Adani issue. A large number of workers and leaders joined the yatra.

At Udhampur passive protest rally was organized by the Congress Party. Patil questioned PM Modi and entire BJP for it’s silence over the Adani issue and asked Prime Minister to answer the questions raised by Rahul Gandhi in the house. She said asking questions in the country , under BJP government, has become a crime.

JKPCC chief Vikar Rasool Wani said that people are being crushed through various means and burdened with huge taxations, price rise and huge unemployment while their representatives are being booked, intimidated, threatend, booked, jailed etc.

Manoj Yadav also lambasted Modi govt for its anti democracy and dictatorial policies and said people are the best answer to this regime. Raman Bhalla lashed out the anti people approach and decisions of Modi govt and the politics of vendetta of BJP government.

In the morning PCC leadership joined the Satyagrah at Vivekananda Chowk, organised by DCC Jammu Urban and BCCs led by Yogesh Sawhney, Manmohan Singh, Councillor Ritu Chaudhary, Atul Sharma, Chander Shekhar, Pawan Singh and others.