Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Apr 12: Peeved over the systematic and planned neglect and deprivation of Jammu region in the PDP-BJP rule, chairman of NPP and former minister Harsh Dev Singh today appealed various sections of society to unite for restoring the dignity and honour of Dogra land.
He said while the Kashmir region was receiving complete attention of the Central and State Govts, the people of Jammu region continued to be disregarded and disparaged. With Govt focussed upon the appeasement of separatists, subversives and anti-national elements in the Valley, the issues of Jammu region had been ruthlessly discarded, rather obliterated from the Govt agenda, maintained Harsh Dev.
Addressing a large public gathering at Mansar today, Singh said that while the Panthers Party stood for justice to all regions of the State, it strongly condemned the appeasement or pampering of one region at the cost of the other. He said that the perpetuation of bias by the incumbent Govt by divesting Jammu region of its legitimate share in various sectors as clearly noticed during the last two years was wholly unacceptable. He regretted that 10,000 posts of SPOs sanctioned last year by the GOI for State were all allocated to Kashmir division to the neglect of Jammu region with BJP leaders most shamelessly issuing statements that it was necessary in national interest.
Likewise, allocation of 57 PG seats in H&ME Deptt to Kashmir as against 13 seats for Jammu Medical Colleges was highly opprobrious. He strongly condemned the unabated regional bias in selections made by PSC and SSB for various State-level posts during the last two years.
Describing the situation in Jammu as highly explosive, Singh said that people of the region were feeling cheated and betrayed due to their complete neglect. He regretted that while the stone pelters of Kashmir were assured compensation and Govt jobs, the highly qualified youth of Jammu including females were left to agitate on the roads with no takers for their genuine grievances.
He further lamented that 25 MLAs from BJP had miserably failed to respond appropriately to alarming situation created in the wake of illegal settlement of Rohingyas and Bangladeshis in Jammu and its vicinity.
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