Srinagar, August 4 (KNS): Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee Tuesday launched a strong protest over the decision of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha to suspend 25 MPs of the party from the House yesterday.
The senior leaders of the party along with Congress workers simultaneously held protest at Srinagar and Jammu outside party Headquarters to register their protest over the suspension of the 25 Congress members of Lok Sabha and termed the decision of the Speaker as most unfortunate and against the basic spirit of parliamentary democracy.
In Srinagar the protest was led by PCC President G.A. Mir who along with senior leaders of the party proceeded towards the Governor’s House to submit memorandum and register protest over the decision and to seek review and revocation of the decision, in the larger interest of democracy. However, they were prevented by the
Police from proceeding to Raj Bhawan and detained by police near Banquet Hall Maulana Azad Road.
Describing the decision of Lok Sabha Speaker as undemocratic, unfortunate and against the basic contours of Indian Constituency, Mir hit out at BJP Government at Centre for ‘trying to gag the opposition by indulging in undemocratic means.’
“Parliament is a temple of democracy, Congress party has the highest regards and respects for the Parliament, where everyone has the right to raise his or her voice representing the people; but the decision of the Hon’ble Speaker on the issues goes against the basic spirit and functioning of the Parliament, which is most unfortunate,” Mir said.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
Reports said the protesting leaders and workers in Jammu assembled at party Headquarters and marched towards Residency Road but the police contingent forcefully prevented them from proceeding ahead and the workers resorted to raising of slogans against the government and protested against the suspension of Congress MPs.
The protest demonstration was led by Sham Lal Sharma, Senior Vice President, Mula Ram, Raman Bhalla, Kanta Bhan, Balwan Singh, Yogesh Sawhney, Vikram Malhotra, Shah Mohammad Choudhary, Manmohan Singh, Rajnish Sharma, Indu Pawar, Namrata Sharma, Anil Chopra, Maheshwar Singh, Darshan Raina, M.K. Bhardwaj, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Shamsher Singh, S.S. Shingari, Hari Singh Chib, Udheybhan Singh Chib, Hira Lal Pandita, Pawan Raina, Ashwani Puri, Manjeet Singh Jatt, Sanjeev Sharma, Dr. Kanwal Singh, B.B. Gupta, Ch. Sukhdev Singh, R.K.
Khajuria, Prabha Slathia, Neeraj Kundan and others.
A Congress spokesman said in Srinagar over 64 prominent leaders who were detained included Peerzada Mohammad Sayed, Taj Mohi-ud-din, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori, Haji Rashid Dar, Gulam Nabi Monga, Mohammad Anwar Bhat, Mohammad Amin
Bhat, Farooq Andrabi, Surinder Singh Channi, Hilal Ahmed Shah, Shameema Iqbal, Irfan Naqib, Abid Kashmiri, Sahil Farooq Imtyaz Khan, Haji Farooq Mir, Zahid Hussain Jan, Abdul Ghani Khan, Anayat Ullah Rather, Ghulam Mohammad Mir and others.