New row: Cong to limit people at Amarnath cave per day

MORE CONTROVESY: The ghost of the Amarnath land controversy is all set to haunt Cong during the state elections.

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Jammu: As the violence over the Amarnath land transfer row settles down, the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir has stirred up another controversy. The party state convention has passed a resolution demanding that the number of pilgrims at the Amarnath cave be restricted to 3,000 people per day.

JK Pradesh Congress Committee President, Saifudin Soz said that they wanted the recommendations of the 12-year-old Nitish Sen Gupta report to be endorsed.

The Sen Gupta Committee was constituted in 1996 after 240 pilgrims were killed in a snow storm. The committee had suggested regulating the number of pilgrims to 10,000 on the entire route, with only 3,000 allowed at the cave on any given day.

The state Congress' demand has angered many who feel the party is against the pilgrims like its former alliance partner, the PDP.

Coordinator Amarnath Sangrash Samiti, Leela Karan said, "They have taken away the land. Saifudin Soz and Mehbooba Mufti have the same agenda."

The Amarnath land controversy has already jolted the Congress in the state and it seems that the ghost of this controversy will haunt the party even during the state elections ahead.