14 BJP activists injured

JAMMU, JULY 21. Fourteen activists of the BJP protesting against the naming of a bridge on river Tawi after the late Chief Minister, Shiekh Abdullah, were injured when police resorted to lathicharge and burst teargas shells to prevent them from disrupting the inauguration of the bridge this morning, according to the police.

Meanwhile, shops and business establishments were closed here in response to a bandh call given by the BJP.

The BJP activists raising slogans against the State Government were proceeding towards the bridge when the police swung into action and lathicharged the demonstrators to foil their bid to disrupt the inaugural function presided over by the Chief Minister, Dr. Farooq Abdullah.

However, the president of the State unit of BJP, Mr. D.K. Kotwal, claimed that 14 of their workers were injured in the police action. He said four BJP workers had received serious injuries and were hospitalised. Mr. Kotwal said the BJP was not against Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah but the bridge should have been named after some personality of Jammu or something related to it.

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