Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 13: To lodge protest against State Government’s apathy towards refugees, BJP Sharnarthi Cell will stage one day hunger strike and dharna at Satwari Chowk, Jammu on August 25, the first day of Legislative Assembly Session at Srinagar.
This was announced by BJP Sharnarthi Cell Prabhari Pt Ashok Khajuria while addressing a public meeting at border village Badyal Brahmna on the 13th day of the ongoing signature campaign.
“Successive State Governments have always denied the rights to the refugee community and played with the sentiments of the downtrodden community. Hence in order to press the ruling State Coalition Government for a decisive action in favour of the entire refugee community and to pass a resolution in the upcoming session of the Legislative Assembly to fulfill the demands of the ‘Refugees’ in a time bound manner, the BJP Sharnarthi Cell will stage one day hunger strike and dharna at Satwari Chowk Jammu,” he said.
Earlier MLA Suchetgarh Sham Choudhary also joined the signature campaign and penned down the pledge to support BJP in the forthcoming Assembly elections. He said that the BJP is committed to fight for the rights of the refugees since ever but the ruling NC-Congress regime has never paid any heed to the miseries of the community. “When the elections are nearby, they start juicy campaign to befool the PoJK migrants by making forged public announcements but when they come in power they forget the grievances and demands of migrant community,” he said.
Meanwhile, scores of people of the Badyal Brahmna and adjoining villages pledged support to BJP in the forthcoming Assembly elections.
Panchs and Sarpanchs of the constituency were present on the occasion besides prominent party functionaries including Sarpanch Vijay Sharma, Pt Tirath Ram, Umesh Khajuria, Pushap Sharma, Lalit Sharma, Joginder Sudan, Narinder Kumar and Neeraj Kumar.
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