Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 23: Yuva Rajput Sabha (YRS) today staged a strong protest to demand Government holiday on the birth anniversary of Maharaja Hari Singh.
Hundreds of youth of Rajput community under the banner of Yuva Rajput Sabha assembled near Maharaja Hari Singh’s close to main Tawi Bridge and staged a protest demonstration under the leadership of YRS Jammu president Rajan Singh Happy. Later, they also blocked the ever busy Tawi Bridge for a brief period.
Speaking on the occasion, Rajan Singh Happy lambasted the Government for making fool the people of Jammu and Kashmir on the declaration of holiday on 23rd September (Maharaja Hari Singh’s birth anniversary). He said the J&K administration made promise of declaration of gazetted holiday on September 23 time to time but fail to keep them all times.
“The administration also made a committee on the issue also but no response came till date from the committee. The UT administration is playing with the sentiments of the people of J&K,” Happy said and warned the administration of strong protest in coming days if the holiday was snot declared on September 23.
Later, on the intervention of senior Police officers and ADC Law & Order Minga Shirpa, who assured to take up the matter with the UT administration, the protest was suspended by the Rajput Sabha with a warning to the Government to declare holiday on birth anniversary of Maharaja within few days otherwise the Sabha will organize a Tiranga rally on 15th August and sit with their tents near Maharaja’s statue till Government declares holiday on September 23.
Prominent YRS leaders participated in the protest were Rajinder Singh Senior, Rajveer Singh (ex-president), Mohan Singh, Mandeep Singh (senior vice-president), Mukesh Singh (senior vice-president), Vishal Singh (vice president), Sumit Singh (vice president), Sandeep Singh (vice president), Balbir Singh, Rajeev Singh (Urban president Jammu), Raghu Singh (Rural president), Sanjay Singh (Samba district president), Koushal Singh (Reasi district president) and Balkar Singh.
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