Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 24: Dozens of physically challenged persons protested against the State Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu for not announcing any relief for them in the budget.
Protesting under the banner of JK Handicapped Association, they said that it was disappointing for them to be ignored by the Finance Minister.
“Thousands of physically challenged have been forgotten by the PDP-BJP alliance. No relief package has been announced for us,” President of the Association Abdul Rashid Bhat said.
He said the new Government has followed the footsteps of its predecessors which too had brushed them aside.
He said the Government should announce some relief for them, else they will keep protesting.
“Ignoring us is a human rights violation and all the successive Governments have committed it.”
The agitated persons also said they have not been paid any compensation after floods devastated their office in the city and damaged all the sewing machines on which they worked to earn for their livelihood.
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