{"id":32007,"date":"2025-08-28T06:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/?p=32007"},"modified":"2025-08-28T06:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:02:22","slug":"locals-protest-against-shrine-board-demand-action-over-pilgrimage-despite-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/locals-protest-against-shrine-board-demand-action-over-pilgrimage-despite-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Locals protest against Shrine Board, demand action over pilgrimage despite warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KATRA, Aug 27: Scores of locals today staged a strong protest against the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board for allowing the pilgrimage to continue despite Government warnings of possible landslides and cloudbursts in the region.<br \/>\nThe protesters raised slogans against Shrine Board demanding accountability and immediate corrective measures to prevent further tragedies. They alleged that negligence and commercialization by the Shrine Board had put the lives of pilgrims at risk.<br \/>\nCongress leader Karan Deep Singh, who joined the protest, said: \u201cThis commercialization mindset of the Shrine Board has already cost more than 35 lives. We demand registration of an FIR against the Shrine Board for wilfully risking and killing pilgrims. Strict action must be taken, and commercialization of Hindu holy places should be stopped immediately.\u201d<br \/>\nLocal leader Sohan Chand also blamed the Shrine Board for large-scale deforestation and unscientific works on the Trikuta Hills. \u201cThe mountains are being made hollow. The Shrine Board has not learnt any lesson from the recent Chashoti cloudburst,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32008\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32008\" src=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4088409091065533685-300x156.jpeg\" alt=\"Locals protest against Shrine Board, demand action over pilgrimage despite warnings\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4088409091065533685-300x156.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4088409091065533685-768x400.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4088409091065533685-549x286.jpeg 549w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4088409091065533685-470x245.jpeg 470w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4088409091065533685-233x121.jpeg 233w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4088409091065533685-230x120.jpeg 230w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4088409091065533685-360x188.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4088409091065533685-100x52.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4088409091065533685.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Locals protest against Shrine Board, demand action over pilgrimage despite warnings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATRA, Aug 27: Scores of locals today staged a strong protest against the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board for allowing the pilgrimage to continue despite Government warnings of possible landslides and cloudbursts in the region. The protesters raised slogans against Shrine Board demanding accountability and immediate corrective measures to prevent further tragedies. 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