India, Sept. 16 -- The Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) on Tuesday held a protest at Press Colony, Srinagar, demanding the immediate clearance of fruit-laden trucks stranded on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway for a month, causing losses of hundreds of crores to growers in the Kashmir Valley.

PDP leader Iltija Mufti met Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha and discussed the highway disruption issue. "Party leader and Bijbehara constituency in-charge Iltija Mufti apprised Sinha of the crisis crippling J&K's apple industry due to the closure of Srinagar-Jammu NH. He assured her that he would expedite smooth truck movement to prevent further losses," the PDP posted on X.

For the second day, fruit wholesale markets across the Valle...