JAMMU, March 21 -- Police on Friday foiled a protest march by daily wagers of the Public Health Engineering (PHE) department supporting their demand for regularization and resorted to minor cane charges to prevent them from moving towards Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's residence here.
The daily wagers of the Jal Shakti department have called for a 72-hour strike.
Raising slogans like "Omar Abdullah hosh mein aaoo - hosh mein aaoo", hundreds of daily wagers under the banner of the PHE Employees Union marched toward the chief minister's residence.
The daily wagers were protesting against the government's delay in addressing their regularization and pending wage release. The police had set up barricades, some of which were crossed by the pr...