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Jammu, August 29 The Jammu bandh for which the call was given by the Panthers Party today evoked a mixed response amid sporadic incidents of clashes between the supporters of Congress and the Panthers party at several places in Jammu region.
In Kathua the Panthers supreme Prof Bhim Singh was greeted by tomato pelted byCongress supporters forcing him to cut short his rally while party workers fought street battles in Udhampur where party MLA Balwant Singh Mankotia ruffled shoulders with Congress workers and exchanged fisticuffs.
In Jammu and elsewhere majority of shops and business establishments remained closed and the public transport services remained off the road paralyzing normal life .Attendance in state government officers and educational institutions was thin because neither the employees nor the students could make it to their destination in the absence of transport services. Majority of private schools had declared holiday and cancelled their examinations due to bandh call. However private vehicles including three wheelers ply on the city roads. In the morning hours skeleton bus and matador services operated and some shops were opened but groups of lathi wielding activists of Panthers party mounted on jeeps paraded through main city bazaars in order to force businessmen to shut their shops.
Reports reaching here said that the trouble started at Udhanpur when people backed by Congress supporters refused to respond to the call for bandh given by the Panthers party in protest against the step motherly treatment given to migrants in Talwara camp.
Prof Bhim Singh said that the government was responsible for the murder of democracy in the state.
He claimed that peoples response today’s bandh clearly indicated their support for the Panthers party and their disenchantment with the congress led coalition govt.
One report said that shopkeepers in Kanak Mandi responded to the call for bandh after they had received a signal from the BJP.
Congress spokesman Ravinder Sharma said that the way some BJP activists persuaded shopkeepers in Kanak Mandi to shut their shops reveales that there was some secret pact between the BJP and the Panthers party.
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