Scores of youth from Udhampur town under the banner of Civil Society Udhampur on Sunday held a peaceful sit-in against levying of ‘extra road tax’ on local vehicles.
The protesting youth led by one Rohit Khajuria claimed that they are being forced to pay Rs 200 for a travel distance of 60 kilometer which is “discriminative” in nature as “state government has recently withdrawn an order that levied tax on vehicles in Kashmir Valley”.
“Aren’t we, the people of Udhampur, human being? Why we people are being made to pay extra tax and why not the people of Kashmir Valley even paying tax? In Jammu’s Samba district, an under-construction toll plaza was vandalized to get rid of road tax. What this government wants us to do- damage public properties or resort to violence in our protests?” said Rohit Khajuria.
