City erupts in protest over Pulwama attack

Sameer Singh
Tribune News Service
Bathinda, February 15

Members of different religious associations and NGOs condemned Pulwama terror attack and burnt effigies near Sadbhavna Chowk to express their resentment on Friday. The protesting members raised slogans against the terrorism and those responsible for it.

Sukhpal Singh, chairman of the Jyoti Welfare Club, said, “Those behind the dastardly act of killing CRPF soldiers in Pulwama must be identified at the earliest and punished. We have been patient enough but now it’s the time to retaliate.”

Members from Noujwan Welfare Society, Shiv Sena Punjab, Women Patanjali Yog Commitee, Life Health Safety Society and others were present. The protesters also burnt flags of Pakistan and demanded from the government to find out if the terror attack was sponsored by the neighbour country.

Later, Congress workers observed two minutes silence at their office near the railway station. Bathinda Youth Congress constituency in-charge Mohit Mohindra, along with district Congress president (urban) Arun Wadhawan and Punjab Congress general secretary Ashok Kumar, were present during the protest. Members of the SAD district unit   also conducted a protest march from Fire Brigade Chowk to Sadbhavna Chowk and raised slogans against terrorism.