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Hot issue: Police using water cannons to disperse activists of Shri Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti who were demonstrating on the land transfer issue in New Delhi on Saturday. NEW DELHI: A large number of people under the aegis of Shri Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti and civil society organisations held a demonstration on Parliament Street here on Saturday protesting against withdrawal of land allotted to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board and alleged brutality of the police on peaceful agitators in Jammu. The protesters gathered at Jantar Mantar in the afternoon and began marching towards Parliament. The police had erected barricades on the way to stop them near the Parliament Street police station. However, several protesters tried to jump over the barricades forcing the police to use water cannon and a mild baton-charge. The Samiti claimed that over a dozen protesters were injured. Several Kashmiri Hindu groups and cultural, social and political organisations had extended support to the protest rally. Addressing the protesters, Vishwa Hindu Parishad national secretary Khem Chand sought immediate re-allocation of land to the Shrine Board and warned that any delay could have serious consequences for the Union Government. Shri Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti convenor Mange Ram Garg said people had been killed and injured during the ongoing protests in Jammu but the State and Union governments were keeping mum on the issue. “When Haj pilgrims can be doled out subsidies, why deny the Amarnath yatris their right?” asked Mr. Garg. Vowing to intensity their protest in the coming days, the protesters charged that the Jammu and Kashmir Governor was trying to “crush our movement”.
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