Scores of protesting trade union leaders were detained in Jammu and Kashmir on February 16 during street protests against the government’s “anti-farmer, anti-worker and pro-capitalist policies and to press for farmers demands”.
Activists of the J&K Apple Farmers’ Federation, Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and Kisan Tehrik held a demonstration in Srinagar’s Lal Chowk area. A protester said “peaceful protest demonstration was organised in response to ‘Gramin Bharat Bandh’.
A trade union leader said police used force and arrested members of the Jammu Kashmir Apple Farmers Federations in Srinagar. “This high handedness of police is highly unwarranted and unacceptable,” he said.
