Municipal poll : Bar supports JRL’s shutdown call for Oct 8

Municipal poll  : Bar supports JRL’s shutdown call for Oct 8

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar association has extended its support to the shutdown call of Joint Resistance Leadership for October 8, Monday and asked the lawyers to abstain from work.

The four phase municipal polls are scheduled to begin on October 8 in Jammu and Kashmir.

A spokesperson of the Bar on Saturday said that the decision was taken today.

In wake of the Municipal and Panchayat polls, the Joint Resistance Leadership had called for a shutdown in Kashmir on October 8. “JRL leaders asked people to observe complete shutdown across Jammu and Kashmir on 8th October to protest the commencement of the ULB and Panchayat election drama being foisted upon them,” said a JRL statement.

The Bar has asked all the lawyers to abstain from work on October 8.

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