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Pro‑Iran NC Protest Disrupts J&K Assembly

The uproar became a stage for BJP attacks over a recent fuel price rise.

Overview

  • NC legislators, joined by some CPI(M), PDP and Independent members, chanted pro‑Iran and anti‑US slogans inside the House, prompting police to step in and a brief adjournment.
  • Members displayed a portrait of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as NC’s Tanvir Sadiq said the party stood with Iran and urged national leaders to condemn Khamenei’s killing.
  • BJP legislators opposed the display, and Times of India reported a scuffle between Congress MLA Irfan Hafiz Lone and BJP MLA Yudvir Sethi inside the chamber.
  • Outside the complex, BJP supporters marched toward the Civil Secretariat in Jammu, accusing the NC‑led government of raising petrol by Rs 1 and diesel by Rs 2 per litre and pressing for a National Law University in the region.
  • NC framed the protest as a response to the reported killing of Khamenei in USIsrael strikes in late February, echoing Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s earlier condemnation of those attacks.