HM’s visit fails to inspire Jammu people: Harsh Dev

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 9: With Jammu centric issues once again failing to receive due and focussed attention of the Union Home Minister, the high profile visit of the Central dignitary had failed to inspire the masses in Jammu.
Addressing a press conference here today, NPP leader and former minister Harsh Dev Singh  said that general public comprising various sections of the society had pinned high hopes from the much hyped visit which however, failed to address their aspirations. He said during the last few tours of the Union Home Minister prior to the present visit, several delegations of political and social organizations besides civil society had met him and submitted memorandums highlighting the pressing issues of Jammu region besides its perpetual neglect but they too, remained unaddressed and un-responded even during the present visit .
Having avoided the issue of allotment of five marla plots to border dwellers in consonance with the promises doled out earlier, the Union Home Minister had caused the greatest disappointment to the affected people,  Harsh Dev said. This was the main demand of the border dwellers who felt that alternate accommodation in safer zones alone could provide them with a sense of security which however was being declined despite earlier assurances, lamented Singh. He regretted that the major demand of the West Pak refugees for State subject rights was also declined by saying that they were Indian citizens and by merely announcing cash dole for them at par with PoJK migrants. Likewise, the grave issue of  Rohingyas was downplayed by saying that all states have been directed for identification of such illegal immigrants.
Regarding the raising of IRP Battalions and construction of individual bunkers, Singh said that such announcements are being repeatedly made for the last few years but the delivery on the ground is conspicuously missing. Promises are meaningless until and unless they are translated into reality and the Union Home Minister needed to evolve a proper mechanism with periodic review of the progress achieved.
While the Jammu youth booked during Amarnath Ji land row continued to face prosecution and court trials, the anti- national and subversive elements of the Valley were being repeatedly pampered and given amnesty with criminal cases and PSAs being withdrawn against them on regular basis, Singh regretted.
Similarly not a word was uttered over the demand of people of Jammu for CBI probe in Rassana case despite it having become a mass movement in Jammu and adjoining districts, he added.

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