Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 16: Demanding holiday on the birthday of erstwhile Dogra ruler Maharaja Hari Singh, Shri Amar Kshatriya Rajput Sabha today held a protest against Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti when she came here to inaugurate a park in his name.
Flanked by Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh, Mehbooba today inaugurated a newly set up Maharaja Hari Singh Park, his sculpture, a library and restaurant on the banks of river Tawi today.
Over 150 activists of youth wing of Shri Amar Kshatriya Rajput Sabha led by its chief Pawan Singh Chib sat on dharna in protest against the inauguration of Jammu Development Authority (JDA) park by Mehbooba. They raised anti Mehbooba and anti BJP-PDP slogans and demanded holiday on September 23, the birthday of Maharaja.
Speaking to reporters, Pawan Singh Chib said it was very unfortunate that BJP brought “anti-Jammu” Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, who refused to grant holiday on the birthday of Maharaja to inaugurate the park and statute of Maharaja.
“Everyone in Jammu from political parties to social or religious organization was one for grant of holiday on the birthday of Maharaja, but CM Mehbooba Mufti bluntly refused it. It is shameful and insult to Maharaja that the same CM is inaugurating the park,” he said.
Chib demanded that State Government should honour the sentiments of the Jammuites and declare gazette holiday on birth anniversary of Maharaja Hari Singh at the earliest, in view of the fact that a great resentment is brewing against the Government among the people of the State.
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