Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 7: The ‘Jammu bandh call given by the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) today to protest internet shutdown failed to evoke any response as the party chairman Harsh Dev Singh and some other leaders were put under house arrest or detained by the police authorities.
The business activity and transport operations remained as usual in Jammu and other parts of the region with shopkeepers opening their shops during the whole day. The public and private transport was also seen playing normally on all the routes.
The police and paramilitary forces were deployed in strength in sensitive areas of the winter capital city and elsewhere as a precautionary measures to tackle any law and order problem.
Scores of NPP activists led by party president, Balwant Singh Mankotia and Youth wing president, Yash Paul Kundal assembled outside the Jammu Press Club, near main Tawi bridge in the morning and tried to take out a march against continued ban on mobile internet, price hike of essential commodities and setting up of Toll Plaza at Sarore and Lakhanpur but were stopped by a strong contingent of policemen and later detained.
Party chairman and former minister Harsh Dev Singh was detained along with several other associates on Friday while he was canvassing support for the bandh. He was later put under house arrest. Accusing the administration of following “unconstitutional and draconian methods to muzzle the voice of the people of Jammu”, a NPP spokesman claimed more than 300 party leaders and activists were detained to foil Jammu bandh by the Administration. He said none of them was released till this evening.
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