Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 28: Bahujan Samaj Party has urged the State Government to make permanent alternative rehabilitation arrangements in safer areas for the inhabitants of the forward border villages who have been facing heavy firing and shelling by always hostile Pakistani forces.
The BSP State president Tulsi Dass Langeh and other senior leaders of the party conducted a three-day tour of the forward border villages and interacted with the people besides addressing a series of public meetings at Sarain, Suchetgarh, Kapoorpur, Nekowal, Tarewa, Jabowal, S M Pur and Nanga.
The villagers rued that they were not paid compensation for the land acquired by the Defence authorities for raising earthen bandh and fencing while 180 acres of the land beyond fencing has turned useless due to accumulated water there.
The inhabitants of village Jabowal complained that there was no progress on the project for widening of road from Jabowal to Tarewa as the concerned department was sleeping over the matter.
The affected villagers also demanded 5 marla plots in safer areas so that they could take shelter at the time of firing and shelling by Pakistan.
The visiting BSP leaders, who included R L Chargotra, Rattan Kumar Bhagat, B D Thapa, Krishan Thapa, Dr Harjeet Kumar, Tilak Raj Bhagat, Jagdish Raj Verma and Bharat Bhushan, asked the Government to take care of the border area people and solve their grievances.
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