Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, May 9: The people from Manjakote town and adjoining areas today held protest demonstration and dharna for the 9th consecutive day today in support of their demand of setting up of Degree College and sanctioning of the post of SDM for the area.
A large number of people from the area including majority of them youth, stood up from the dharna site near Tehsil complex and then moved to the Rajouri-Poonch highway. They sat on dharna on the roads and stalled the movement of traffic on Jammu-Poonch highway for about two hours from 11 am on wards.
The agitating people were shouting slogans against the PDP-BJP Government and also in support of their demands. They pointed out that Manjakote area has four Higher Secondary schools and it fulfills the much needed criteria for the creation of Degree College. They alleged discrimination with the Manjakote area on political reasons.
They further said that when many towns of Rajouri district have been sanctioned posts of ADCs and SDMs, then why only Manjakote was ignored in all respects. They warned to intensify agitation in near future. The busy road was cleared with the intervention of senior officers at around 1 pm.
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