Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 3: Intensifying its mass contact programme, the AIIMS Coordination Committee leaders today held a largely attended meetings at Hari Market and Kanak Mandi areas of old city.
Addressing the gathering of civil society members, traders and women activists, chairman of the ACC and president of JKHCBA, Jammu, Abhinav Sharma, urged them to get ready for a mass movement across Jammu region in case the BJP, which on June 18 gave a written commitment that AIIMS will be established in Jammu region, failed to honour its commitment by July 20.
“We are waiting for the D-day. We behaved in a most responsible manner after the BJP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh and his ministerial colleague Bali Bhagat gave us a written commitment that they will obtain positive orders on the issue on or before July 20. It is a litmus test for the BJP. If it fails to deliver, it would lose all of its credibility. People of Jammu region, who are already extremely angry with the BJP for the anti-Jammu agenda of alliance, would not forgive it said Abhinav Sharma, adding that the BJP would become a story of the past if it failed to fulfill the solemn commitment. Explaining why Jammu region needed an AIIMS, Abhinav Sharma said that, unlike Kashmir, this region does not have a single modern and well-equipped medical institute. Poor people have to go to far off places like Delhi, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Mumbai and Bengaluru for medical treatment he said, and added that the establishment of AIIMS in Jammu would not only cater to the medical needs of the people of this region but also the needs of the people of Kashmir and adjoining States of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab.
Among others who spoke on the occasion, included Retd Sessions Judge and president JPPF, Pavitar Singh, vice-president Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), Jammu, Deepak Aggarwal, President, Federation of Retailers Association, Yashpal Gupta, Jugal Mahajan, Vijay Gupta, president, Kanak Mandi Retailers Association, Labha Ram Gandhi, president West Pakistani Refugees, president Shri Amar Khastriya Rajput Sabha, Narayan Singh, Rajiv Dewan and Pawan Kumar.
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