Congress, BJP workers hold protests over Sarabjit’s death

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Congress and BJP workers in the city today organised separate demonstrations to register their protest over the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan.

The death row convict succumbed to injuries in a Pakistan hospital in the wee hours today, nearly a week after being brutally assaulted by inmates in a Lahore jail.

Expressing their anger at the brutal attack on Sarabjit and his subsequent death, activists of Congress and BJP burnt effigies of Pakistan at two different places in the city, police said.

Scores of Congress workers, led by local leaders Girish Joshi and Vivek Khandelwal, shouted anti-Pakistan slogans and burnt an effigy of the neighbouring country at Rajbada area.

BJP workers, led by city unit president Shankar Lalwani, held protest in Navneet Tower area. Lalwani alleged the Indian prisoner was killed as part of a conspiracy in which the government of Pakistan was complicit.

The UPA government failed to put enough pressure on Islamabad to secure the release of Sarabjit, who met an untimely death, the BJP leader said.

Indore’s Gurusingh Sabha president Manjeet Singh described the Indian national’s death as “most unfortunate”.

The Centre should ensure that Sarabjit is cremated with honour and his family gets adequate compensation, he maintained.