Srinagar: Apni Party on Friday held sit-in protests — against the ongoing demolition drive by the administration — at the district headquarters across J&K.
According to a press note released here, “Party’s district leaders and senior workers led the sit-in protests at the district t headquarters across the J&K. The sit-in protests at multiple places were meant to register a strong objection, on behalf of the party, against the administration’s ongoing demolition drive.”
It further said, “Apni Party demands the immediate stoppage of the bulldozing drive. The party is not against retrieving large chunks of land occupied by the land mafia, but we demand regularization of the small amount of State/Kacharai land, which has been in possession of common people for decades or in some cases for more than a century.”
“In the Valley, the senior party leaders —Usman Majid, Javaid Mustafa Mir, Abdul Majeed Padder, Raja Manzoor, Khursheed Ahmad Khan, Noor Mohammad Sheikh, GM Mir, Tariq Ahmad Veeri, and Javaid Ahmad Mir — led the sit-in protests respectively in Bandipora, Badgam, Kulgam, Kupwara, Baramulla, Srinagar, Pulwama, Anantnag, and Ganderbal,” the press note said.
“While as in Jammu region, Manjit Singh led the sit-in protest in Jammu and Samba districts; Advocate Harpreet Singh in R S Pora; Pushap Dev Uppal in Jammu (Rural); Satpal Chalotra in Udhampur; Anil Kumar in Badherwah; Bashir Khaki in Poonch; Sofi Aslam in Rajouri, and in Kishtwar led by Umer Mingnoo,” the press note added.
