Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 18: Chairman of SOS International- an organization of Displaced Persons from PoK, Rajiv Chuni today claimed that DPs would field own candidates in the coming Lok Sabha elections next year from Jammu-Poonch and Kathua-Udhampur-Doda Parliamentary constituencies.
Addressing a rally of DPs at Maheshpura Chowk, Jammu today, Chuni sought support from all the members of the displaced community for this cause. He claimed that DPs were being used as vote bank for various political parties since long. They were befooled many times and lured with false and hollow promises. But now they will not come in their talks and have decided to install own candidate in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections news year.
The members extended their full support to SOS International and its leadership for its continuous dedication of raising voice for the well being of PoK DPs. Rajiv Chuni said that the motive behind organizing rally was to pass resolution to field candidates from PoK DPs community in 2019 general elections and seek their support.
“The candidates will contest in polls from both Lok Sabha constituencies of Jammu province i.e. Jammu-Poonch and Udhampur-Doda-Kathua constituencies. Thousands of people during meetings and rallies have advised me to launch our own candidates as various successive Governments have failed to redress our issues till today. To put stop over brutalities on world’s most destitute community, launching our own candidates is the need of hour and it is high time to take such a decision,” Chuni added.
He said to put a full stop over these practices, PoK DPs will have to shun looking at these hostile parties; PoK DPs must have their own candidates. Chuni stated that working committee of SOS International will discuss over it and the decision will be taken shortly. All the PoK DPs in the rally unanimously accepted and vowed their whole heartedly support to the resolution.
Chuni said that Kashmiri Pandits who are hardly any in numbers are fetching every possible benefit from Government but on the other hand, PoK DPs who are more than ten lakh have been struggling for justice for the last seven decades. He further said BJP leaders have been making fake promises to PoK DPs since they have come to power.
V K Datta, Prof JS Mangal, Prof NN Sharma, Gurmit Singh Isher, Parmod Ghai, Ved Raj Bali, Sharda Devi, TR Sethi and Dharam Vir Gupta also spoke on the occasion.
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