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Jammu, July 19, (Scoop News)-A strong protest demonstration was held by the Congress party at Jammu over the arrest and preventive detention of AICC general secretary, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in U.P. today, when she was proceeding to Sonbhadra district to meet the victims as ten (10) people who were killed and twenty eight (28) injured, while resisting an attempt to take possession of the land by village headman and his supporters two days ago.
The demonstration was led by JKPCC president, Ghulam Ahmed Mir, senior leaders of Congress held a protest demonstration at Shaheedi Chowk Jammu against the Utter Pradesh government terming the arrest of Priyanka Gandhi as arbitrary and undemocratic, as she had gone to meet victims of Sonbadhra massacre.
The protestors raised anti BJP and UP government of Yogi Aditya Nath slogans and slammed the BJP government for preventing her to proceed to meet victims.
Addressing media at the demonstration site, PCC chief Ghulam Ahmed Mir slammed BJP and UP government for the worst law and order situation in U.P and lashed out at the UP government for the anti democratic action of preventing Priyanka Gandhi and taking her into custody when she wanted to lead a small delegation to meet the victims of massacre.
He said that UP government prevented Smt. Gandhi to hide the worst failure of BJP government to maintain law and order and ensure the safety and security of poor people. He also lashed out at the incident of killing of three persons in Bihar and strongly condemned for the failure to maintain rule of law in various parts of the country.
Several prominent leaders joined the protest including Shri Raman Bhalla, Ravinder Sharma, Smt. Kanta Bhan, Rajnish Sharma, Shah Mohd Chowdhary, Manmohan Singh, Indu Pawar, Vikram Malhotra, Hari Singh Chib, Shabir Ahmed and others.
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