Tiranga rally foiled at Patnitop

Our Correspondent

Patnitop, May 7

The Tiranga rally of the J&K National Panthers Party (JKNPP), led by its state chairman Harshdev Singh, was forcibly stopped at Patnitop by a heavy contingent of the police and the CRPF.

The rally had started from Red Fort, Delhi, on May 4 and was to conclude at Lal Chowk in Srinagar with the unfurling of the Tricolour by workers and leaders of the JKNPP on May 8.

About hundred of JKNPP workers were taken into the preventive custody and taken to a government guest house at Patnitop.

The JKNPP workers were raising slogans against the coalition government in the state and for the unity of the country. They said they “were determined to unfurl the national flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar to show the solidarity with the non-state students of the National Institute of Technology (NIT), who had to face the wrath of the antinational elements there”.

The rally was taken out in the backdrop of the NIT episode in Srinagar. Due to the dharna by JKNPP activists on the national highway at Patnitop the vehicular traffic remained disrupted for about an hour.