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Leaders of Jammu and Kashmir Congress will surround Parliament on Tuesday. According to the news agency PTI, more than 160 party leaders have left for Delhi.
J&K Congress leaders: The leadership of Jammu and Kashmir Congress has left for Delhi on Monday to ‘siege’ Parliament under the ‘Delhi Chalo’ program. The leadership of the Congress in Delhi is insisting on bringing a bill to restore the state status of Jammu and Kashmir. The party leadership accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “fully failed” in fulfilling the demand of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Did Ghulam Ahmed Mir say?
Congress National General Secretary Ghulam Ahmed Mir told the media in Jammu, “The Prime Minister has committed to restore the state status of Jammu and Kashmir-not once, but many times. He promised people that they will restore it both inside and outside Parliament, so we are going to Delhi to intensify the movement for the state.” Mir, Jammu and Kashmir Congress President Tariq Hameed Karra, on Monday, were leading more than 160 party leaders in five double decker buses from Jammu. He said, “It has been 10 months since the Lok Sabha elections, but the status of the state has not been restored yet. The Prime Minister should fulfill his promise to restore the rights of the people of the state.” Talking to reporters, Karra said, “To get back his state status, which is our constitutional right, we are moving towards the national capital under the Delhi Chalo program. We will try to surround the Parliament there. We want to awaken this blind and deaf government. They are silent to fulfill the demand to give state status, which they made in and out of Parliament.”
Karra and Mir were taken into custody
Karra said that after a letter to the Prime Minister to demand the restoration of the state status of Jammu and Kashmir by the Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, he started protesting-first ‘Srinagar Chalo’, then ‘Jammu Chalo’, and “Now we are moving towards Delhi.” The party staged a protest in Srinagar on 19 July for the first time demanding the restoration of the state status of Jammu and Kashmir. After this, on July 20, a protest march was taken out in the middle of Jammu under the leadership of Karra and Mir. The group wanted to march till the Raj Bhavan to submit a memorandum to Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, but he was stopped by putting police barricades. Both Karra and Mir were among those detained.
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