Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 15: Fulfilling its resolve of providing financial assistance to the Uri martyrs from the State to the tune of Rs 5 lakh to each bereaved family, BJP today handed over the cheques to the wives of the two martyrs of Subedar Karnail Singh of Shibuchak falling in Bishnah and Havaldar Ravi Pal of Saarba village of Samba.
BJP State president & MLA Sat Sharma, Deputy Chief Minister Dr. Nirmal Singh, Lok Sabha MP Jugal Kishore Sharma, Minister of Industries & Commerce Chander Prakash Ganga, BJP State general secretary (Organisation) Ashok Kaul, Samba MLA, Dr. Davinder Manyal and Ex-MLA Ashwani Sharma, visited Shibuchak and Sarba villages the native places of two martyrs to handover these cheques to them.
Sat Sharma, while expressing party’s sympathies with both the families said that the brave soldiers of Army and para-military forces have been laying down their lives for the cause of motherland since 1947 but their sacrifices were never recognized in the State. While the party on its own had passed a resolution in its Working Committee to provide Rs 5 lakh assistance to each family of the two jawans hailing from Jammu who lost their lives during Uri attack last month, it continued to exert pressure on the State Government to provide ex-gratia compensation to these martyrs and the same has been achieved after Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh pursued it before the Government.
Dr. Nirmal Singh in his address said that it has happened for the first time in the history of J&K that any Government has honoured the sensitivity of its coalition partner, the BJP and a unanimous decision was taken in the Cabinet to treat the martyrs of Army and other Central security forces at par with those of J&K Police and provide them ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh and a job under SRO-43 to one of the member of the bereaved family. He said that although Rs 5 lakh cannot provide succor for long but a government job under SRO-43 will prove a lifelong assistance to the affected family.
Jugal Kishore Sharma, said that one of the major achievement of Narendra Modi led Government is decision of Rs 5 lakh compensation to the civilians who lose their lives as result of firing from across the border. How much concerned the Modi Government has been towards the border people can be well judged from the fact that innovative and most beneficial schemes have been launched for the welfare and economic security of the farmers and border people.
Chander Prakash Ganga, Ashok Koul, Dr. Davinder Manyal and Ashwani Sharma also shared their sympathies with bereaved families and assured that every activist of the party is with the families who are victims of terrorism and proxy war.
Balbir Ram Rattan, Arvind Gupta, Keshav Dutt, Jangveer Singh, Brijshwar Rana, Kashmir Singh, Subash Bhagat, Santosh Bhagat, Shiv Lal Manyal, Narsingh Dayal, Bharati also accompanied the BJP leaders.
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