Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, Jan 29: Second phase of agitation by the PoK Displaced Persons, under the banner of SOS International, led by its Chairman Rajiv Chuni, began with a massive protest demonstration at Poonch City.
A large number of PoK DPs from Poonch assembled at Krishan Chander Park in Poonch City and held a massive demonstration there amidst raising of slogans. The protesting DPs also took out a march from the demonstration site to Deputy Commissioner’s office where a memorandum of demands, addressed to Prime Minister of India and Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, was submitted through the District administration.
They were demanding implementation of the whole package passed by State Cabinet in October 2014 for PoK Displaced Persons, facilities to all Displaced Persons at par with Valley migrants, reservation of eight Assembly seats for the people displaced from PoK, permission for PoK DPs to visit their religious places in Pak occupied Jammu Kashmir, inclusion of 5,300 PoK DP families living outside the State in the ambit of package passed in October 2014 and return of cash deposits with interest to PoK DPs lying with J&K Bank Mirpur.
While addressing the demonstration, Rajiv Chuni accused the BJP leadership of being hypocrite and arrogant. “In 2013, this party had taken out a Refugee Adhikar Yatra from Poonch to Lakhanpur and R S Pura to Ramban promising the community to address their grievance and we people also trusted them by extending all support in 2014 polls but it turned out to be another Jumla of this party,” he alleged and appealed people to teach BJP a lesson in the forthcoming elections.
Drawing a parallel between Displaced Persons from PoK and Kashmiri migrants, Rajiv Chuni said that all facilities like relief in cash, ration, free accommodation and even tax rebate were being extended to the migrants from Valley whereas on the other hand, there was only lip service for the PoK DPs. He informed that the SOS International has prepared a comparative chart on the Government facilities to Kashmiri migrants and PoK DPs, which will be distributed among people for awareness on step motherly treatment to the community.
Others who addressed the gathering, included Advocate Chaman Lal, Sanjeev Sharma, Dilbagh Singh, Harbans Singh, Dushyant Puri, Sarvjit Singh Kranti, Udesh Paul Sharma, V K Datta, VR Bali and Pramod Ghai.
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