Click to play videoSrinagar: Protests in Srinagar against transfer of forest land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) have entered the third day.
Shops, schools and colleges in the city have been shut. Protesters have also clashed with police at three places in Sringar on Wednesday morning.
Leaders of Hurriyat Conference are still under house arrest.
There is heavy security in downtown Srinagar and Maisuma. On the first day of protests on Monday, one person was killed in police firing.
The valley-based political parties - the National Conference (NC) and the People's Democratic Party (PDP) - are against the transfer of 40 hectares of forestland to the SASB where facilities for Amarnath pilgrims have been proposed to be built.
However, the two big national parties Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are supporting the project.
While protests continue in the Valley over the transfer of forestland to the SASB, political parties and organisations in Jammu are holding protests in favour of the land transfer.
Parties like the BJP, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Shiv Sena have called for a bandh in Jammu on Thursday.
Sikh organisations like Jammu and Kashmir Youth Akali Dal and Gurdawara Prabhandhak Board are also in favour of the deal blaming Valley's politicians for communalising the issue.
Meanwhile, the Amarnath Yatra has been suspended at the base camp in Jammu, with over 10,000 pilgrims stranded. The state government had earlier claimed that the yatra has been suspended after a glacier caved in enroute to the shrine.
On Tuesday, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had a meeting with Congress ministers to discuss the situation after the controversial allotment of forestland to SASB and the subsequent pullout threat by the PDP.
The PDP, part of the ruling coalition in the state, has threatened to consider pulling out of the government if the order is not rescinded by June 30.
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