Anti-China Protests in Jammu Over Killing of 20 Soldiers in Ladakh Galwan Valley

Anti-China protests were held at multiple locations in Jammu region on Wednesday over the killing of 20 Indian soldiers in Ladakh's Galwan Valley, with agitators demanding revenge, boycott of Chinese products and severing trade ties.

They torched China's flag, effigy and Chinese products amid high-pitch sloganeering calling for a strong response to the action of the China's People's Liberation Army, officials said.

However, they said the protesters dispersed off peacefully.

The Indian Army on Tuesday said 20 Army personnel, including a Colonel, were killed in the clash on Monday night, in the biggest military confrontation between the two armies in over five decades.

The primary dissent of the day was accounted for from Akhnoor in the edges of Jammu, where a huge gathering of local people consumed tires and obstructed the Jammu-Poonch Highway for over 30 minutes. 

Afterward, different gatherings of individuals under the pennant of different associations including Shiv Sena Dogra Front, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Rashtriya Bajrang Dal arranged fights at about twelve areas in the city. 

Youthful activists from various ideological groups and social gatherings additionally organized fights, the authorities said. 

"India won't endure



such sort of exercises. This (the executing of Indian officers) has started rage among the individuals. We need Prime Minister Narendra Modi to retaliate for the executing," Shiv Sena Dogra Front Chairman Ashok Gupta told correspondents. 

Gupta, who was driving the dissent at Rani Park, recommended snapping exchange attaches with China to send a solid message. 

The dissidents set on fire a few Chinese items.

Rashtriya Bajrang Dal activists, some of whom were armed with tridents, gathered near the Press Club and burnt an effigy of China.

"We want revenge. We have done so in the past, by carrying out surgical strikes in Pakistan following an attack on an army camp in Uri sector of Baramulla district and later in the aftermath of a suicide attack on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama district of south Kashmir," said one of them.

Reports of protests were also received from other parts of Jammu region, the officials said.

Meanwhile, the J&K unit of BJP announced postponement of all party programmes till further orders in view of the prevailing situation on the India-China border in Ladakh.

"Due to the prevailing situation at the border, all party programmes stand postponed till further notification," J&K BJP media incharge Pardeep Malhotra said in a statement.