Over 100 Youth Congress activists, including several top leaders of Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Youth Congress (JKPYC) and All-India Youth Congress President Randeep Singh Surjewala, were arrested here on Tuesday for defying prohibitory orders near the Civil Secretariat during a protest demonstration, official sources said Headed by Surjewala and JKPYC chief Yogesh Sawhney, the activists were taking out a rally from the exhibition grounds to protest the failure of law and order and increase in militancy in Jammu region during the five-year National Conference rule in the state, the sources said. They were arrested when they tried to move towards the Civil Secretariat defying prohibitory orders in the area to demonstrate before Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, raising slogans against failure of NC in curbing militancy and development in the state, large scale corruption in state administration and "backdoor" appointment of relatives of NC leaders. .
Police took 100 activists into custody, including Randeep Singh Surjewala, Yogesh Sahwaney, Pankaj Dogra, Ashwani Puri, Ravinder Sharma, Balbir Singh, Mangat Ram Sharma and Ayoub Khan, the sources added. Bureau Report