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8 members of Amarnath Shrine Board resign
LAST UPDATE: Thursday, 7 Aug 2008 - 4:59:37 AM
NEW DELHI: In a latest development to the Amarnath land row, eight members of the Amarnath Shrine Boards have resigned.
According to Times Now, the resignations have been submitted to J&K Governor N N Vohra to facilitate the reconstitution of the board.
The members who have resigned are Justice (Retd) G.D. Sharma, Vishnu Murti Shastri, Sunil Sachdeva, Manoj Gaur, Vimla Dhar, Neerja Mattoo, Raghu Modi and Arun Kumar.
The shrine board has 10 members with the Governor as its chairman and his principal secretary as its chief executive officer.
It is believed that the new board will have all the members belonging to Jammu and Kashmir.
In another development earlier in the day, Shri Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti (SASS), which is spearheading the ongoing agitation in Jammu over the Amarnath land issue, on Wednesday refused to soften its stand and said it will settle for nothing less than revocation of the government's order cancelling transfer of nearly 100 acres of land to the shrine board.
The SASS also turned down Governor N N Vohra's invitation to visit the controversial forest land at Bhatal.
"We have received a letter from Vohra to visit the site. We turn it down. But we will convene a meeting of the executive committee later in the day and then reply," SASS convener Leela Karan Sharma said over phone.
"We have already made the SASS stand clear to the Governor that nothing short of revocation of cancellation order and restoration of powers to the Board will be acceptable," he said.
Meanwhile, the violent protests in the Valley over the Amarnath land row enraged further on Wednesday when protesters defied curfew in Srinagar and took to roads.
There were reports of clashes between pro-Amarnath demonstrators and CRPF men in some areas of Srinagar.
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