Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 10: Dismissing outright the biased, irrational and highly discriminatory recommendations as contained in the reports of S.S Bloeria and Mushtaq Ahmed on creation of new administrative units at Block, Niabat and Sub-Divisional levels in Jammu & Kashmir, BJP State president Jugal Kishore Sharma today demanded creation of five new districts in Jammu province to meet the legitimate demands of the people.
“Set up forthwith five new districts of Basohli-Billawar, Akhnoor, Sunderbani comprising Sunderbani, Kalakot and Nowshehra tehsils and R.S. Pura and grant the status of backward area to all the villages in Jammu province and Ladakh region that deserve such a status to bring them at par with the Kashmir villages,” he said while talking to reporters here today.
He said earlier the party held a meeting to discuss the manner in which the Cabinet-Sub-Committee (CSC) headed by Congress leader and DyCM Tara Chand has been conducting itself and implications of the recommendation of Bloeria and Mushtaq.
Jugal Kishore Sharma, asserted that naked and blatant discrimination with the people of Jammu province started in early 60s and people have been agitating for their rights in political, developmental, educational, professional colleges, employment, new administrative units and so on ever since then.
He said that it was to look into the complaints of the people of Jammu province that the Gajendragadker Commission was constituted. “The commission gave a detailed report in 1968 and suggested ways and means to remove regional imbalances. It recommended an empowered Regional Development Board for Jammu province to meet the special needs of the people and end discrimination in all the fields. It is a matter of grave concern that the successive Congress-dominated or Congress-supported governments in the State did not implement the Gajendragadkar report,” said Jugal Kishore Sharma.
harma said that the BJP will not tolerate injustice with the people of Jammu province and Ladakh region anymore and also fight for the genuine rights of the people of Kashmir and added that the BJP believes in the principle of justice and equity and doesn’t want a dispensation that differentiates between regions, districts and people.
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