Srinagar/March, 5:Shutdown called by trading bodies against ban on Jammu and Kashmir Jamat-e-Islami and legal challenge to Article 35-A hit normal life on Tuesday across Kashmir.
All shops and other commercial establishments are shut and passenger traffic is off the roads
Various trade organisations had on Monday called for a complete shutdown against “continued attacks” on special status of Jammu and Kashmir, ban on socio-religious organisationJamaat-e-Islami and “arrest spree” across the Valley.
Addressing a press conference, chairman of the Kashmir economic alliance (KEA), Muhammad Yasin Khan said that New Delhi is pushing the people of Kashmir to the wall.
“From the ban on Jamaat-e-Islami to continued and collective attempts being made by the Raj Bhawan and New Delhi to erode the special status of Jammu and Kashmir by tinkering with Articles 370 and 35A, every sinister effort is being made to further the unrest in Kashmir,” he said.