Dehradun, March 8 -- Garhwal Post Bureau

Rishikesh, 7 Mar: Women leaders and workers of the Uttarakhand Pradesh Mahila Congress, led by state president Jyoti Rautela, were stopped by the police at Nepali Farm while proceeding towards Haridwar to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his visit to the state. The leaders said they were attempting to submit a memorandum highlighting several pressing issues concerning Uttarakhand.

Rautela asserted that the memorandum sought to raise matters such as the deteriorating law and order situation in the state and the failure to secure complete justice in the Ankita Bhandari murder case, rising crime, insecurity faced by women, growing unemployment among youth and the burden of inflation on the ...