Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 22: The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee has demanded resignation of Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh, Minister for Forest Bali Bhagat and others who were party to the written commitment, representing the Government and BJP, as they failed to fulfill the commitment regarding the setting up of AIIMS in Jammu, after the deadline fixed by them expired on July 20.
Describing it as the worst ever act of betrayal by the leadership of BJP with the people of Jammu region, which will go down in the history in ‘black letters’ for the sabotage of the movement of the people, by those who were party to the commitment, with the people of the region through Co-ordination Committee, who were none-less than the Deputy Chief Minister, a Minister and besides other MLAs of the BJP in the presence of Speaker of Legislative Assembly on June 18.
This kind of betrayal after a categorical written commitment, with a specific deadline for the fulfillment of the same, has no parallel example of its kind. The situation demands that those who are signatories and party to it, should resign from the respective positions and seek a public apology from the people. These persons have eroded the sanctity and the authority of the institutions and positions being held by them and brought insult to the highest institutions of democracy in the State. They have mislead the people and tried to weaken the movement by their tactics.
An emergency meeting of senior Congress leaders was held here today at PCC office to discuss threadbare the issue of on-going movement for AIIMS in Jammu region, in the wake of failure of the Government to honour the commitment made to the people and decided to extend full support to the movement resumed by the Co-Ordination Committee under the leadership of BAR Association Jammu. The meeting decided to intensify the struggle in order to force the State and Central Government to fulfill the announcement of AIIMS for Jammu.
The meeting was presided over by Sham Lal Sharma, senior vice president PCC and attended by Raman Bhalla, Mula Ram, Kanta Bhan- vice presidents; Ravinder Sharma-chief spokesman PCC; senior leaders Rajnish Sharma, Yogesh Sawhney, Dr Manohar Lal Sharma, Ch Shah Mohammad, Manmohan Singh, Manjit Singh, Vikram Malhotra, Anil Chopra, Neeraj Gupta and others.
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