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Commuters from Punjab protest against COVID testing
Commuters from Punjab protest against COVID testing
Ravi bridge blocked, huge traffic jam witnessed
Excelsior Correspondent
KATHUA, Apr 17: Irate commuters from Punjab working as daily laborers, hawkers and small traders in different parts of Kathua and Samba twin districts today held a massive protest in the middle of Ravi bridge between Lakhanpur and Madhopur and blocked the National Highway for three hours in protest against the conducting of COVID tests for them daily.
There was a huge traffic jam upto many kilometers on Jammu -Pathankot National Highway on Punjab side as the protestors did not allow any vehicle to ply on the Highway. Raising slogans against the conducting of COVID tests on daily passengers, the protestors demanded that they should be exempted from the same and allowed to enter Lakhanpur as per the prevailing practice of filling up of declaration forms.