BJP supporters, police clash during Jammu bandh
BJP and Sangh Parivar activists clashed with the police during a bandh against Jammu and Kashmir government's decision not to hand over forest land to Amarnath shrine board.
By PTI |
JAMMU: BJP and Sangh Parivar activists today clashed with the police here during a bandh called by them in protest against Jammu and Kashmir government's decision not to hand over forest land to Amarnath shrine board.
Shops and business establishments remained closed and transport was off the road in the city as bandh supporters held protest marches shouting slogans and burning effigies of Governor N N Vohra, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and estranged coalition partner PDP's patron Mufti Mohammad Syed.
Police cane charged BJP, VHP and Shiv Sena demonstrators at Vikram Chowk when they tried to put up a road block, official sources said.
The protestors demanded removal of Board chairman and Governor Vohra after the decision by the Board to give up claim on 40 hectares of forest land allotted to it in Anantnag district.
Security has been beefed up and additional para military forces deployed in sensitive areas of the city to foil designs of "anti-social elements", the sources said, adding mobile patrolling has also been intensified.
The decision to transfer land to the Board led to largescale protests and violence and saw withdrawal of support by PDP creating political crisis in the state.
Shops and business establishments remained closed and transport was off the road in the city as bandh supporters held protest marches shouting slogans and burning effigies of Governor N N Vohra, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and estranged coalition partner PDP's patron Mufti Mohammad Syed.
Police cane charged BJP, VHP and Shiv Sena demonstrators at Vikram Chowk when they tried to put up a road block, official sources said.
The protestors demanded removal of Board chairman and Governor Vohra after the decision by the Board to give up claim on 40 hectares of forest land allotted to it in Anantnag district.
Security has been beefed up and additional para military forces deployed in sensitive areas of the city to foil designs of "anti-social elements", the sources said, adding mobile patrolling has also been intensified.
The decision to transfer land to the Board led to largescale protests and violence and saw withdrawal of support by PDP creating political crisis in the state.
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