Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, June 13: The BJP activists held a demonstration here today in protest against the callousness of the State Government towards them.
The protestors raising slogans against the Government demanded settlement of their problems at an earliest.
The BJP leaders with banners and placards in their hands warned to intensify agitation in case the Government continues its discriminatory policies towards the border people of Jammu region.
The protestors led by senior BJP leaders Ranjit Singh, Chander Parkash Ganga and Sat Sharma (CA) submitted a memorandum to Deputy Commissioner Samba seeking immediate redressal of the demands.
The memorandum demanded that the area falling on International Border (IB) from Phaharpur to village Chamb in tehsil Akhnoor be also declared as RBA on pattern of the people living on LoC as these people face the same hardships and problems due to aggressiveness of the Pak Army as are being faced by the people of LoC.
The memorandum also demanded compensation for the land of farmers occupied by the armed forces on IB from Phaharpur to village Chhamb in Akhnoor tehsil for construction of morchas, ditches, road, barbed wire, bunkers etc. These people were not given any compensation since 1947 till date and the same be paid immediately as the land has been taken under Land Acquisition Act by the State Government.
The memorandum alleged that the BADP funds sanctioned by Union Government are spent in entire Kathua district while Hiranagar Constituency including Ghagwal block are situated on IB. It demanded removal of ban on felling of Khair trees in Kandi belt as farmers have been put to many hardships because of the same.
It further demanded removal of discrimination with the youth of districts Kathua, Samba and Jammu in recruitment in the Army, allotment of sufficient funds for meeting the water scarcity problem in Kandi belt and implementation of Roshni Act by attesting the mutation of ownership rights.
Kashmir Singh, Subash Bhagat, Joginder Singh, Ashwani Sharma, Omkar Padha, Sanjeev Padha, Naresh Dayal, Shiv Lal, Shail Chandil, Narinder Mehra and Anil Kumar were among other BJP leaders who participated in the protest.
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