Jammu and Kashmir: Congress protests against govt’s ‘anti-people’ policies

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Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee president Vikar Rasool Wani and senior leaders besides party activists were detained here on Monday after they tried to take out a march to the Raj Bhavan against anti-people policies of the LGs administration..

Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee workers being detained during a protest march against the Adani Group, property tax, Aptech JKSSB scam, and delayed elections in Jammu and Kashmir, in Jammu on Monday..

Amid intense sloganeering the Congress leaders were demanding statehood, early assembly elections, rolling back property tax, hiring of a blacklisted agency by JKSSB and impartial probe into financial irregularities of the Adani group...

We are assembled here to take out a march to the Raj Bhavan to lodge our protest against the BJP for denying a probe into allegations of financial irregularities and market manipulation by the Adani group, Wani said before leading the protest march from outside the Maharaja Hari Singh Park in the city...

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