JAMMU: As part of its national campaign, the Jammu and Kashmir unit of Congress staged the ‘Samvidhan Bachao Rashtriya Padayatra’ on Saturday, with party leaders demanding an apology and resignation from Home Minister Amit Shah for allegedly using derogatory words against B R Ambedkar.
Amid chants of ‘mulk ko bachaana hai, Congress ko laana hai’ (To save the country, Congress must be brought in), hundreds of Congress leaders and workers assembled at Gandhi Chowk in Satwari and later marched in a procession toward the nearby Ambedkar Chowk in Gandhi Nagar.
“This protest rally is part of the national campaign launched by the Congress to save democracy and the Constitution, which faces a direct threat from the BJP. We want to mobilise public support in a peaceful manner against the central government’s policies, which are dividing the country along religious lines,” said Senior Congress leader and AICC in-charge for J&K, Bharat Singh Solanki.