Led by JKNPP president, Balwant Singh Mankotia, over 200 activists took out "Jail Bharo Andolan" rally from Shahidi Chowk in Kathua district and culminated at Mini-Secretariat of the District Headquarters.
Over 50 activists, including Mankotia, courted arrested and were taken to the District Police Lines Kathua. Later, they were released, police said.
Meanwhile, the activists also demanded resignation of deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh and Forest Minister Bali Bhagat for failure to implement their commitments and burnt their effigies.
The protesters also accused the BJP of playing the politics of "deceit, duplicity and betrayal" with the people of Jammu region.
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Mankotia said that the BJP had only tried to buy time with the intentions to sabotage and cripple the up-surging mass movement triggered by the persistent bias perpetuated to the people of the region.
Lambasting the sycophantic posturing of Saffron party to keep the unholy alliance intact, Mankotia maintained that the BJP has pusillanimously surrendered all the Jammu centric issues before its coalition partner PDP to play a second fiddle and the stooge in the hands of its coalition partner which shall not be tolerated by the Panthers Party.