Bhalla targets Govt over Delimitation report, withdrawing security of party leaders
STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: The police had a tough time today to foil an attempt by the Congress to take out a protest march towards Raj Bhawan led by JKPCC Working President Raman Bhalla along with senior Congress leaders, a large number of Congress leaders and activists of PCC, DCC Urban & Rural and Frontal Wings including Mahila Congress, Youth Congress, Seva Dal, NSUI and other Cells, carrying congress flags and play cards and raising slogans held as massive protest demonstration at Shaheedi Chowk against the record breaking rise in price of petrol, diesel, LPG and other essential commodities due to unprecedented tax terrorism of BJP Govt., besides large scale unemployment and glaring irregularities in the draft report of delimitation commission.
They took out a march towards the Raj Bhawan, a heavy contingent of Police had a tough time to prevent the protestors march at Residency Road.
The senior leadership of the party also prevented the young cadre from forcibly proceeding ahead and peacefully continued their protest for over one hour.
Led by JPCC Working President Shri Raman Bhalla, a large number of Congress activists including PCC Vice President Kanta Bhan, General Secretaries Yogesh Sawhney( Ex-Minister), Th. Balwan Singh (Ex-MLA), Th. Manmohan Singh, Indu Pawar, Shiv Kumar Sharma , Kuldeep Raj Verma, Krishan Lal Gupta, Pawan Raina, Shashi Sharma, Thomas Khokhar, Satish Sharma, Pranav Shagotra, Uday Bhanu Chib, Sunny Parihar, Vijay Sharma, Dr. Karan Bhagat, Suresh Dogra, Rajveer Singh, Swarn Singh, Gajjan Singh, Sahil Sharma, Ch. Hussain Ali Waffa, Nassir Masih, Corporaters Dawarka Choudhary, Ritu Choudhary, Rajinder Singh Jamwal, Rashpal Bhardwaj, Vandana Sharma, Suman Choudhary, Dr. R.K. Khajuria, Pawan Dev Singh, Satish Sharma, Amrit Bali, Gurmeet Singh, Sonu Dogra, Sat Pal Spolia, Vijay Singh Chib Ram Magotra, Jatinder Chib, Anil Kohli, Rakesh Sharma, Atul Sharma, Dewan Chand, Mangat Ram,Sahil Langeh, Anirudh Sawhney, Rahul Tandon, Latish Sharma, Ajay Sharma, Pawan Singh, Farooq Ahmed, Vrinder Singh, Yash Pal, Surinder Kour, Vijay Khajuria,Vinay Sharma,Gurdeep Singh Kaka beside others.
Speaking on the occasion Raman Bhalla attacked the LG Govt and the central government, saying regular hikes in the prices of petrol and diesel add to the “sky-rocketing expenses” of households.”The Modi government at the Centre and the LG government in J&K were revelling at the misery of the people, without taking any corrective measures, as they were making enormous profits from fuel price hikes,” Bhalla said. The Congress leader questioned BJP Govt on the steps taken to control the price hike.
“Why is it not reducing VAT on oil prices to provide relief to people of J&K? If the Centre does not reduce Excise Duty, J&K can reduce VAT, which will help reduce the prices of petrol and diesel in the J&K, to provide relief to the people,” he argued.
“The government is profiteering at the expense of the people, it is an example of extorting money from people,” he added.