Members of different social organisations took out a peace march in Ramnagar on Sunday in a protest against the Peshawar massacre in which 139 schoolkids and some other people were killed on December 16 and observed two minute silence as a mark of respect.
The protest march was started from the Shaheed Park, lakhanpur and culminated at the Bhagat Singh Chawak, Bhawaniganj in Ramnagar. Speaking on the occasion, the members condemned terrorism in all forms and said that “Today terrorism is a great threat to peace in a civilised society. So people from all walks of life must join hands against terrorism, said Prabhat Dhyani, Uttarakhand statehood freedom fighter.”
Today terrorism is a worldwide problem and the same can be eliminated only when all the countries get united to fight it, he added. Among others social activists Neelam Gupta, lalita Rawat, Manju Pal, Jaikshan Joshi, Santosh Pathak Mohan Belwal, Harish Chandra Joshi to name few were part of this peace march.