Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, Sept 16: Former minister and District Congress Committee president from Samba, Manjit Singh has lashed out at the Government for imposing toll tax at Sarore (Vijaypur) & Lakhanpur, making it highly for costlier and difficult for the common man to travel on Jammu-Pathankot highway.
In a statement Manjit Singh said that poor and common people of different categories would find it difficult to bear the additional burden in view of heavy price hike. He said that large number of people daily visit, to and fro to Divisional HQ at Jammu , District HQ Samba, factory workers, students and several other categories of people, who would face the heat of this additional burden which is totally unjustified in this situation of unprecedented price hike.
He said that AIIMS is too coming up at Vijaypur & large number of patients and attendants from all over state and neighboring state would visit the hospital and would face the unreasonable taxation. These policies of BJP Government are anti-poor and anti people and demanded immediate roll back of this decision.
Signatories to the statement include Block presidents Babu Ram Bhagat (Baribrahmna); Ch Bachan Lal (Ramgarh); Ex-Capt. Mohan Lal (Vijaypur); PCC Members Col Retd Swarn Singh, Tirath Ram Bhagat, Babal Gupta and Seva Dal District president Raj Kumar.