Many detained as Indian police foil PDP protest march in Srinagar
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party took out a protest march in Srinagar, Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, on Tuesday against unavailability of drinking water, high electricity tariff and prolonged detention of Kashmiri youth languishing in jails in India and the occupied territory.
According to Kashmir Media Service, PDP leaders and activists assembled at the party headquarters near in Srinagar and took out a march towards the Lal Chowk city centre. Indian police asked the protesters to disperse, but they continued their march. Later, police stopped the protesters and took several of them into custody, the officials said.
PDP general secretaries Abdul Haq Khan and Mohammad Khurshid Alam, and senior leaders Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura and Syed Basharat Bukhari were detained by police. Some leaders of the party’s women wing were also detained.
Before being taken away by police, Hanjura described the police action as “dictatorship” by the government.
“We tried to take out a protest march against the non-availability of drinking water, increase in electricity tariff and to demand the return of our youth languishing in jails outside Kashmir. But look at this dictatorship of the LG administration and the Omar Abdullah government that we are not even allowed to protest peacefully,” he said.
