Mehbooba urges PDP MLAs to ensure resolution seeking holiday for ‘July 13 martyrs’ passed in House
JAMMU, Mar 2 (PTI): PDP supremo Mehbooba Mufti has urged the party’s three legislators to ensure that a resolution seeking a holiday in memory of the July 13 martyrs is the first to be passed during the budget session of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly.
July 13 was observed as a public holiday in Jammu and Kashmir to commemorate the 22 men who fell to the bullets of the Dogra maharaja’s soldiers outside Srinagar central jail in 1931. The holiday was, however, scrapped by the lieutenant governor-led administration following the 2019 abrogation of Article 370 and the reorganisation of the erstwhile state into two Union Territories.
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) sources said former chief minister Mehbooba asked her party’s legislators to garner support for the resolution to push for a holiday in memory of the July 13 martyrs during the session, scheduled to begin on Monday.
