A strong protest demonstration was held in Jammu city by Congress party including, Youth Congress, Mahila congress and other frontal wings, DCC Urban and Rural against the arrest of IYC President Udey Bhanu Chib and termed it illegal, unjustified and dictatorial action of BJP government, demanding his immediate release.
A large number of Congress leaders and workers of PCC, YOUTH CONGRESS, Mahila congress, frontal wings, DCC Urban and Rural marched through Shaheedi Chowk, Residency road, Raghunath Bazar raising, where they had a scuffle with police to proceed ahead raising slogans against Modi government & BJP carrying Congress and youth Congress flags and playcards condemning arrest of IYC President, a son soil.
Led by Working President Shri Raman Bhalla and other senior leaders former ministers, legislators, & leaders of frontal wings , senior functionaries of PCC, DCC, Blocks joined the protest denouncing udey’s arrest terming it brazen misuse of power.
The protesters strongly criticised the dictatorial and authotarian attitude of BJP and Modi government to crush every dissent in the country.
Accompanied by Former ministers former legislators, Senior PCC,PYC and other frontal functionaries and DCC Presidents including Shri Mula Ram, Yogesh Sawhney, GM Saroori, Ravinder Sharma, Th Balbir Singh Ved Mahajan Neeraj kundan, Vinod Sharma Manmohan Singh, IYC Secretary Maan Singh, T S Tony, Shammema Raina, Shashi Sharma, Satish sharma, Amrit Bali, Inderjeet,Kour, Ajay Lakhotra, Sanjeev Panda, Neeraj Gupta,Iqbal Dar, Bhavishya Sudan, Vijyant Pathania, Latish Sharma,Sohit Sharma, Pawan Bhagat, S. Parveen Singh, Mangal Bral, Kuldeep Sharma, Baldev Raj Bhagat, Anirudh Sawhney, Ranjodh Singh , Parveen Akhtar, Rakesh Sharma, Ravinder Chouhan, Amina Kalyan, Sangeeta, Daljeet Kour, Geeta Devi, Meena Devi, Reenu Anjeelna, Veena and Several other Congress, Youth Congress and other prominent leaders, Working President Raman Bhalla lashed out at the Modi government for undeclared emergency in the country where peaceful protestors are booked under heinous offences to keep in jail.
He said IYC activists held a peaceful expressions of the anger of youth and countrymen against the compromises by Prime Minister under pressure of US President Donald Trump for obvious reasons putting the livelihoods of youth and farmers at stake.
He said peaceful protest against the BJP government decisions are crushed to create fear in the country and it shall not be tolerated and Congress shall oppose and save democracy led by Rahul Gandhi the bold voice of youth and common people.