Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, Nov 26: Pressing Government for re-survey to identify migrants of Jammu province, Member Legislative Council Advocate Vibodh Gupta has said that Government for the first time in history has started considering every region of the State equally by announcing relief for Jammu migrants at par with Kashmiri migrants.
Talking to Bar Council members of Surankote, Mr Gupta said that it is welcome step by Modi Government at Centre and Mufti Government in the State that Jammu migrants are being treated at par with Kashmiri migrants. He said that there was discrimination with the migrants of Jammu and he always highlighted the issue in past and demanded equal treatment to displaced people. He complimented the Government for considering this long pending demand but there is chaos in the lists of migrants which needed to be re framed, he added.
He said that all migrants of Jammu are not figuring in the lists who migrated during militancy from various areas of the region and these people deserve relief at par with the KPs. He said that re survey is the option to redress this issue so that all deserved migrants get relief.
Mr Gupta said that Paharis deserve ST status and government must consider this long pending demand.
Prominent among others who were present on the occasion includes Bar President Adv.Raja Sarfraz,Adv.Ajaz.Adv.IftkarShah ,Adv.Yassir Janjua.
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