Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 17: As a part of the Party’s country-wide “Jail Bharo Andolan” programme demanding resignation of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh being head of the Congress-led UPA Government in order to get rid of mis-governance and rampant corruption, hundreds of BJP activists led by State president of the Party Jugal Kishore Sharma courted arrest today at Dogra Chowk.
Earlier Party activists staged a dharna for three hours at Pt Prem Nath Dogra Chowk and tried to disrupt the movement of vehicular traffic by squatting on the road.
Prominent senior leaders who accompanied Jugal Kishore Sharma in courting arrest included MLA Jammu East, Ashok Khajuria, former president Shamsher Singh Manhas, Sukhnandan Kumar and Sham Choudhary MLAs, Dr Jitendra Singh, Amarnath Gupta, Sakina Bano, Ramesh Arora, Bali Bhagat, Kavinder Gupta, Rajesh Gupta, Sukhdev Singh and others.
The BJP activists were packed in six police buses and taken to District Police Lines Gandhi Nagar and all of them were later released.
Shouting slogans against the UPA Government and Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh the BJP leaders demanded immediate resignation of Prime Minister as head of the scam tainted UPA.
Jugal Kishore Sharma, while addressing the dharna, said that the Congress-led UPA at the Centre has created new records in corruption. Scam after scam has been the gift of Manmohan Singh-led Government having full control of Mrs Sonia Gandhi. He said the Government has lost the faith of the people and it has no morale right to continue, hence the Prime Minister should resign instead of sticking to the chair.
He said that in J&K after the Darbar move the problems of people in Jammu province have increased manifold. There is no ration, no water, no electricity for Jammuites. People are befooled on the name of development while in Kashmir every day foundation stones for new projects are being laid, which is yet another example of discrimination with Jammu.
Leader of Legislative Party & National Executive Member Ashok Khajuria said that it is not only the UPA but the NC-Congress coalition the State which has promoted corruption and attempts are being made to shield the corrupt Ministers and bureaucrats.
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