Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 13: Congress has expressed solidarity with agitating youth seeking jobs in the CISF after qualifying the recruitment process and lashed out at the UT administration for detaining the youths on hunger strike in front of BJP office last night.
Former minister and JKPCC vice president Raman Bhalla, former MLC and chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma, former minister and general secretary incharge Jammu Urban district Yogesh Sawhney have condemned the lifting of the agitating youth and termed it as violation of their democratic rights and their detention as illegal.
They said that they were assured by the BJP Govt that they shall be recruited as they have qualified the recruitment process for the purpose. However, after the DDC elections is over they forget their promises as usual. As a result the aggrieved candidates had to resort the hunger strike in front of BJP office and the residence of MP Dr Jitendra Singh. But the BJP leaders did not bother to address their grievances and instead made the administration to lift them from the dharna site forcibly.
The PCC leaders expressed solidarity with the peacefully agitating youths and asked the Govt and UT Administration to ensure justice with them.