00:00Shifting focus now to Jammu and Kashmir. It's a massive protest that's been staged by the BJP in Srinagar.
00:06BJP has alleged the failure of the Omar government in Jammu and Kashmir.
00:10Mega BJP stir at Srinagar's Lal Chowk. BJP says Omar can't provide basic governance.
00:17BJP stir is against the power tariff and the unemployment in the particular region itself.
00:23Well, BJP and C face-off imminent as both parties have planned a day of gherao politics in Jammu and
00:30Kashmir.
00:31It's a politically heated landscape that we are speaking of that's in fact come about to erupt in Srinagar.
00:37Security has of course been beefed up outside the BJP office and the civil secretary in Srinagar as we speak
00:42while the national conference party leaders and workers have also assembled in another area, the Rajabag area, to march towards
00:50the BJP office.
00:51So this is one protest and to counter that protest and the demands or the issues being raised by that
00:57protest of the BJP,
00:59it is the NC party carders as well who have launched their own protest as a counter to the first
01:05one.
01:06So this is Lal Chowk that the visuals are coming in.
01:09We have Meir Farid bringing us ground reports from there. Let's listen in to what he has for us.
01:13We want to see.
01:55So viewers, this is what we are in fact getting to see at this given point from Srinagar as our
02:02colleague was also bringing us details of these protests to respective protests that we are speaking of viewers.
02:08The BJP and the National Conference Party in a face-off of sorts when we are speaking of one protesting
02:15and the other, counter-protesting to the other part.
02:17It is Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's governance over which the BJP has raised issues saying that he is not being
02:25able to govern Jammu and Kashmir at this given point.
02:28The governance has failed. That is what the BJP has come out to raise.
02:31But the NC leaders and workers have also come out to assemble in Rajabhag and they have come out to
02:36march towards the BJP office instead.
02:39So we see an entire Gerao politics episode that is playing out in Srinagar at this given point.
02:45The BJP has planned their own secretariat at Gerao as well.
02:48Heavy police contingent can be seen amid all of this to ensure that there is no untoward situation that comes
02:54about amid these protests and they remain peaceful at large.
02:58Of course, these are just the beginning of the day protests that we see.
03:05These are the visuals that are coming in just at the beginning of the day in terms of the protests
03:09that are happening in Srinagar.
03:12Several aspects being raised.
03:14Of course, security being won, governance being won.
03:17There is that entire matter of statehood that Omar Abdullah's party has oftentimes and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah himself has
03:25raised time and again.
03:26So that is something the National Conference has of course kept being extremely vocal about and bringing up to highlight.
03:33The BJP on their part continues to say that they are failing to govern Jammu and Kashmir aptly as it
03:39is required to be.
03:41It is a sensitive region that we are all aware of.
03:43Elections took place just a little while back where the National Conference party was voted to power.
03:50And it was Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who took over the reins in this very region.
03:56You can see the heavy police deployment as we are speaking.
03:59We will have to keep a watch out whether there are any detentions or not of any kind as the
04:04day progresses.
04:05But Meir Farid joins me on the broadcast with more details on the same.
04:08Meir, a very good morning to you.
04:11The day has just begun.
04:12So have the protests.
04:13We already see both of the sides clashing with each other in some sorts.
04:18Take us through what's happening.
04:24Well, it is a day of protests and in fact the era of politics in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP
04:30and the National Conference walking horns.
04:32And right now I am in Raj Bagh area.
04:35This is the police station area.
04:36And behind me, as you can see, the National Conference workers, their leaders have assembled here.
04:41It was a day for them to create a spectacle and show their seriousness towards what were their poll promises
04:48like restoration of Article 370, bringing back statehood constitutional guarantees, etc.
04:55And to press for their demands, they have assembled here.
04:58There were chaotic scenes.
05:00As you can see, the police has barricaded this area.
05:03They are not going to allow the National Conference to move towards the BJP office.
05:07The plan was for the N.C. to move towards that office, do a gherav and press for their demands.
05:12Now, there were chaotic scenes.
05:14The N.C. workers tried to force their way through these barricades and they were stopped by the police.
05:19Now, the situation lasts six, seven years after Article 370 abrogation.
05:23The police administration does not allow any kind of protests because they feel that this could create law and order
05:28issues and disturb the situation.
05:30But yes, similar protests by the BJP as well.
05:34They had their own gherav plan.
05:36And they wanted to move from Lal Chokh towards the secretariat and demand for resignation of Umar Abdullah.
05:42Because according to them, the N.C. government has failed to fulfill poll promises and also, in fact, has only
05:48increased tariffs, electricity tariffs and burdening the common man.
05:53So, politics, in fact, yeah, yeah, this is, this is, this is, this is, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:00So, this is the sentiment here.
06:03But obviously, a lot of pressure on both the parties, especially the national conference because it has been alleged opposition
06:09saying that the N.C. has gone soft on its issues, is going soft on the BJP government because they
06:15want to please them, you know, so that they can get the article, the statehood back.
06:20So, that was the allegation.
06:22Today, the N.C. trying to answer these critics through this protest.
06:26But quite clearly, a day of gherav politics and similar scenes in Lal Chokh where the police, again, is not
06:34allowing the BJP to move towards the secretariat.
06:36So, sit-in right now, as you can see, the N.C. workers and leaders are sitting here and holding
06:42a sit-in.
06:44So, that really is the situation.
06:45Sit-in protest is what we see.
06:46Meir, thank you for bringing us all of those details from right there where the protests have erupted.
06:53Two locations, viewers, that we bring to you these visuals from at this given point.
06:57One being launched by the BJP and the other by the N.C.
07:01In Srinagar itself, two different protests taking place.
