Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 17: JKNPP chief patron Prof Bhim Singh and several others today visited the Shhahidi-Sthal (memorial site) near GGM Science College and paid their rich tributes to the student martyrs of 1966 while the JJSF fast for peace to the departed souls entered into second day on Friday.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof Bhim Singh reminded the gathering how the students were killed and injured when they were demanding university for Jammu. He also narrated the history how he along with some student leaders namely, Kamal Gandotra, Shishu Singh, Raj Kumar Saigal, D D Abrol, D D Singh and others escaped from the curfew bound Jammu city and reached Delhi to meet the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi.
Prof Bhim Singh admired the courage of Indira Gandhi who got inquiry commission constituted under Mr Mukherjee which found several officials and police officers guilty and recommended punishment.
He appealed all student organizations in Jammu Pradesh from the school to the university level to organize a Jammu State Students Movement (JSSM) so that people of Jammu Pradesh shall get freedom from the most corrupt, authoritarian and criminal rulers. He nominated Virender Thakur, State president-NPSU and his team to lead the movement JSSM by taking into confidence all student organizations in the State.
Others who also paid tributes to the student martyrs, included P K Ganju, Anita Thakur, H C Jalmeria, Bansi Lal Sharma, Jagdev Singh and many more.
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