Srinagar, Jan 14 (KNS): With the administration "backtracking" from its word with Pulwama residents to release the arrested youth and allow installation of 'memorial' plaque for slain militants, shutdown has been resumed.
A trader, wishing anonymity, told KNS that the administration and police "backtracked from its promise with us barely hours" after a meeting of the district representatives with Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Asgar Samoon, IGP Kashmir, Syed Javaid Mujtaba Gilani, and Deputy Commissioner, Pulwama, Neeraj Kumar in Srinagar on Wednesday.
The trader said the resumption of the strike has been decided by the locals because "barely after few hours of the meeting, the administration and police called us about their decision of not allowing us to install the memorial board.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel"
DC Pulwama Neeraj Kumar told KNS that the traders have called off the strike. But when asked that the strike has been resumed today, he said "talk to the traders" and dropped the call.
Today will be the fifteenth day of the paralysis in the district due to the obstinacy of the administration to deny the insignia erection, though the traders had relented from installation of a big memorial to a mere simple board at Shaheed Park at busy Rajpora Chowk. (KNS)