Jammu, August 5- Hundreds of Congress workers were detained today when a massive protest was held by the party and marched towards Raj Bhavan from Shaheedi Chowk Jammu.
Led by JKPCC President Shri G A Mir along with working president Raman Bhalla, Vice presidents Mula Ram, Former Minister G M Saroori, Chief Spokesperson Ravinder sharma, Vice president Kanta Bhan, General Secretary I/C Jammu Yogesh Sawhney, Th Balwan Singh, Manmohan Singh, Th Balbir Singh, Rajnish Sharma, Former Minister Gurbachan Kumari Rana, T S Bajwa Ex MP, Ved Mahajan, Naresh Gupta , Krishan Bhagat, Dina Nath Bhagat Ex-MLAs, PCC Secretaries Ashok Sharma, Maheshwar Singh, Pawan Raina, Shashi Sharma, Narinder Sharma,Thomas Khokhar, Sanjeev Sharma ,Kulbir Singh pathania, Parveen Akhtar District Presidents Pankaj Dogra, Sanjeev Sharma, Babbal Gupta, frontal heads like Minority wing, OBC, SC, ST Gurdarshsn Singh, Suresh Dogra, Karan Bhagat, Gajan Singh, Rajveer Singh, Pranab Shagotra, Ch Dwarka,Th Kamal Singh, Col Swarn Singh, Sobat Ali, Ritu Chaudhary,, Gourav Chopra,Vandana Sharma, Nadeem Niaz ,Amrit Bali, Ajay Lakhotra, Satish Sharma, Sahil Sharma, Ashok Gupta, Zahida Khan and several other prominent leaders were taken into custody while holding a peaceful protest march towards Raj Bhawan, raising slogans in favor of Smt Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and against price rise, unemployment and misuse of central agencies.
The protestors were also raising slogans demanding restoration of statehood and early democracy in Jammu and Kashmir. As part of nationwide call of AICC, a large number of Congress leaders and workers including mahila workers assembled at Shaeeheedi Chowk Jammu near Congress HQ under heavy downpour and rains.
They raised strong protest carrying playcards against BJP and Modi government for its economic policies against the poor and youth apart from politics of vendetta. The Modi government is working against democratic values and norms.
They declared that the struggle against injustice , price rise, unemployment and vendetta politics shall continue.
Prominent others who participated and arrested included Sumit Mangotra, Uttam Singh, Virinder Singh, Ram Mangotra, Surinder Khajuria, Balbir Singh, Rajan Sharma, Manav Upadhaya, Ajaib Motton, kewel yogi, Latish Sharma, and several others.
They were still detained till late evening.