Police foil J&K Cong protest demanding statehood restoration

Police foiled the protest march by J&K Congress leadership, for statehood, at Srinagar on Saturday.

- HT Correspondents

The Congress leadership were planning to hold a rally from its party headquarters to the office of Kashmir divisional commissioner.

The police didn't allow leaders to leave the party headquarters at MA road towards the divisional commissioner office. The rally was led by Congress president Tariq Hameed Karra and several party legislators.

Carrying placards and banners, the workers were shouting slogans about the statehood restoration. Even many Congress leaders were stopped on way to party headquarters at various places outside the city. A video of legislator Irfan Hafeez Lone went viral on social media in which he along with his supporters was stopped by a police officer on the Srinagar Baramulla national highway. Lone was heckled by police officer while he tried to March towards Srinagar. Later Lone and his supporters also sat on sit in protest on the national highway and raised slogans in favour of statehood and against BJP.