Excelsior Correspondent
Bhaderwah, Sept 17: While standing with fruit growers, who suffered huge losses due to recent rains and untimely hailstorm, Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) Unit Doda demanded compensation for fruit growers of erstwhile District Doda at par with Kashmir.
Addressing a press conference, BJP District Secretary Doda Sanjay Saraf urged the Governor administration to announce compensation for the fruit growers of erstwhile District Doda including Doda, Ramban and Kishtwar districts, who had suffered huge losses in their orchardists.
He reiterated that the untimely hailstorm wreaked havoc with fruit industry damaging fruit trees across erstwhile Doda District.
Beside compensation policy at par with Kashmir, he also demanded cold storage unit for Bhaderwah, beside marketing initiative as Government has taken for Kashmiri fruit growers.
It is notable to mention here that after Kashmir, Bhaderwah Valley is the leading fruit grower of the State.
Among others present were Omi Chand Secretary Kisaan Morcha, Sanjay Kotwal District Secretary Kisaan Morcha, Satish Kotwal VHP, Devinder Kumar, Karmesh Singh and farmers Ajay Kumar, Chunni Lal, Amresh Kotwal and Kartar Singh.