NPP protests refusal of Govt to construct Amarnathji highway

NPP activists burning effigy of State Govt during protest in Jammu on Saturday. -Excelsior/ Rakesh
NPP activists burning effigy of State Govt during protest in Jammu on Saturday. -Excelsior/ Rakesh

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 11: Enraged by the State Government’s outright refusal to construct Shri Amarnathji highway in Kashmir hurting the faith and sentiments of the people of Jammu region and Hindus in particular, National Panther Party activists led by party chairman Harsh Dev Singh and Yash Paul Kundal State president Young Panthers along with several leaders staged protest demonstration at Exhibition Ground here today.
The angry protesters raising anti-Govt slogans took out a procession which was restrained by the police at Tawi bridge. The activists amid scuffle with the police set ablaze the effigy of the BJP for its treacherous involvement in the clandestine rejection of this unique road project in the Valley.
Exposing the BJP-PDP combine for its malicious intentions through the J&K PWD reply in response to his RTI application, Harsh Dev revealed that the Govt of India had sanctioned eight new highways last year to the State of J&K with the assurance of 100% funding for all the projects. He said that out of these projects Highway No 501 was announced by the Central Govt along the holy cave of Amarnath Ji shrine measuring 105 Kms in length linking Bal-tal-Panchtarni-Chandanwari-Pahalgam-Batakut- Martand- Khanabal in Kashmir.
Singh alleged that R&B in its reply has expressed environmental reasons for refusing the construction of the said road and declined to convey NOC to MoRTH for declaring it as National Highway. He further divulged that the highly abominable reply read that “if the said track was developed as National Highway, it would only devastate the scenic beauty of Pahalgam in Kashmir”.
Dubbing the reply as preposterous and sacrilegious, he asked the State Govt to justify that if the said road was not eco-friendly then how could it fail to convey the objections for the construction of other road projects in Kashmir with similar topography, terrain and climate conditions. He said that the Govt’s reply once again indicated the appeasement policy towards the secessionists and subversives who were hell bent to scuttle the development of the pious shrine for their communal interests which attracted lakhs of pilgrims from all across the country.
Launching a scathing attack on the BJP for maintaining criminal silence over the issue, Harsh Dev recalled that the Saffron party which once claimed itself as saviour of Hindus during Amarnath Ji land row in 2008 had now sold the faith of the Dogras and the entire Hindu fraternity by refusal of the holy highway.

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