Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, Aug 12: Digital protest was held by the people against ignoring Kalakote, while opening 23 Kendriya Vidyalaya’s (KV) in the downgraded State of J&K, here today, led by former MLA and National Coordinator AICC Vichar Vibhag, Ashok Sharma.
There are number of Assembly Segments in J&K, where more than one such institutions (KV) exist and the government added more in their kitty, ignoring Kalakote having population of over two lac, unmindful of the fact that they have been chosen to do justice, said Ashok Sharma in his opening remarks in a webinar on ” Whether Kalakote Needs Kendriya Vidyalaya?”.
“Kalakote is the remotest, hilly and backward area having rarely available health, education, drinking water, road communications, employment facilities. It required special attention by the authorities, to improve the quality of life of the people but by failing to provide KV to them, it added to their miseries,” AICC Coordinator said.
He pleaded that the Prime Minister assured the people to make Kalakote Assembly Segment as “Swarg” but ignoring it, in providing educational infrastructure is, again contrary to the announcement made by him at Rajouri in 2014, saying “Kalakote is Narak and I will make it Swarg”, on reacting to the demands of the people i.e. double laning of Siot-Kalakote Road, CBI probe in Kalakote Town Triple Murder case and health infrastructure in Kalakote.
The digital protesters resolved in the webinar and sought the intervention of the Prime Minister and the newly appointed Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha to provide Kendriya Vidyalaya at Kalakote, commission Thermal Power House and open 13 closed coal mines, restoring 7200 employment to Kalakote youth.
Prominent amongst those participated were Capt LK Sharma (retd.) Rajiv Bali, Vinod Dutt, Ankit Sharma, SK Raina, Ram Lal, Kewal Krishan and Sunil Kumar Sarpanches, Darbari Lal Councillor, Junaid Hussain Advocate, Babu Ram president AJKKU, Girdhari Lal president KCC, Arjun Sharma, Adv Dilbag Singh, Darshan Kumar, Gulshan Sharma Happy, Sahdev, Vinod Kumar, Sanjay Sasan, Akhil, Manoj Kumar, Rashpal, Pushkar Nath, Ayush Sharma, Prem Lal, Kuldip Kaseer.