Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 28: AIIMS Coordination Committee (ACC) which is leading the ongoing agitation for establishment of a separate AIIMS in Jammu region, today warned BJP which is the coalition partner of PDP of serious consequences if the Union Government failed to make an announcement in this regard by July 30.
Talking to reporters here, today Abhinav Sharma, chairman of the AIIMS Coordination Committee (ACC) and president of JKHCBA, Jammu, said the patience of people of Jammu region is ending very fast and if BJP failed to appreciate their outraged feelings before July 30, it will have to face serious consequences.
He said the ACC will organize candle light protest march on Wednesday, which will be participated in by leading civil society members drawn from all walks of life. The people across Jammu region will organize three-day-long bandh starting from July 31 to make the establishments in the State and New Delhi see the writing on the wall. The ACC never wanted to take such an extreme step, but the biased, vindictive and anti-Jammu forces forced it to do so to achieve AIIMS for Jammu which was promised for it by none other than Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Sharma added.
He said that it was for the first time in over 67 years that something was given to Jammu without its asking, but those who promised AIIMS for Jammu in no time shifted it to Kashmir. The manner in which the BJP surrendered AIIMS to the PDP has shocked the people of Jammu region and put them on a road of confrontation, he further said, and added that the ACC will take rest only after it achieved its two stated goals establishment of AIIMS in Jammu.
Meanwhile as part of its mass contact programme across Jammu region, a joint team of the AIIMS Coordination Committee (ACC) headed by senior advocate and former Bar President Bhupinder Singh Slathia and comprising of Shri Amar Kshatriya Rajput Sabha president Narayan Singh, Panun Kashmir leader Ajay Chrungoo, president All J&K Passenger Transport Welfare Association, Devinder Chowdhary and vice-president Doordarshan Approved Artists, Madan Rangeela today toured Reasi and addressed civil society members there.
The civil society members at Reasi offered their fullest possible support to the Jammu cause, saying Jammu, not Kashmir, deserved a full-fledged All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) as the region lacked even rudimentary healthcare facilities.
Meanwhile Bhaderwah Bar Association suspended their work in courts for third connective day and warns to continue strike till govt gives a written assurance for the establishment of AIIMS at Jammu.
The Bar Association Bhaderwah President and senior advocate Davinder Kumar Gupta along with the others advocates protested in front of the Bhaderwah court demanding to fulfill the promise which was made by the Deputy CM Nirmal Singh and Forest Minister Bali Bhagat.
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