PDP protest against soaring power bills, water shortages foiled in Sgr

Police on Tuesday foiled a protest march by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Srinagar city and detained several senior leaders and scores of party workers.

- REHAN QAYOOM MIR

The protest was held outside the PDP headquarters near GPO, Lal Chowk Srinagar and was organized to highlight public grievances including the hike in electricity bills, acute shortage of drinking and irrigation water and to demand the return of Kashmiri detainees lodged in jails outside the Union Territory.

Eyewitnesses told the news agency, that a heavy deployment of police personnel stopped the march shortly after it began, detaining many leaders on the spot and dispersing the protesting workers.