Police detain JKPCC chief, a number of occasion staff protesting in opposition to rising gas costs

Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee president G A Mir was briefly detained right here on Sunday together with over a dozen occasion staff throughout a protest in opposition to the rising gas costs, police stated.
The police acted after Mir together with senior occasion colleagues and former ministers Raman Bhalla and Yogesh Sawhney tried to take out a rally in opposition to the worth hike of important commodities, particularly petrol, diesel and LPG at Janipur locality of town, the officers stated.
Accompanied by numerous occasion activists and supporters, the Congress leaders earlier staged a sit-in and raised anti-government slogans for its alleged failure to test the hike within the value of important commodities.
“The protest is part of a 45-day programme chalked out by the Congress against the increased fuel prices,” Mir informed reporters earlier than being detained by police together with the 2 senior occasion colleagues and a number of other different activists.
He stated the Congress has launched a protest marketing campaign from February 15 to March 30 to ask the eye of the federal government in direction of the folks’s worsening plight amid the rising costs of important commodities.

“We will take this campaign to every nook and corner of the Union Territory and force the government to provide relief to the people,” he stated.
Mir additionally criticized the Jammu and Kashmir administration for proposing property tax and stated ?now and again, a present is given to the folks within the form of latest taxes to make their lives depressing.
“We are facing tax terrorism and will agitate any move to impose the property tax. They have already imposed taxes on the people for using roads, water and electricity,” he stated.