Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 30: Refugee Adhikaar Yatra on its 7th day reached Samba and Hiranagar constituencies today covering Bari Brahmana, Sarore, Jakh, Swankha Morh, Nanpur, Dag, Nanga, Vijaypur, Samba, Raipur Refugee Camp, Baniglad, Kattal Gujran, Chakra, Madeen, Sanji Morh etc.
Earlier the yatra left from Kaluchak in the morning. It will have a night halt at Hiranagar.
The Yatra is led by BJP State President & MLA Jugal Kishore Sharma and others who accompany him are National Executive Member & State chief spokesperson, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Senior leader Thakur Ranjit Singh, State vice-president Chander Prakash Ganga, state general secretary & Yatra Incharge Rajiv Jasrotia, BJP State Cells incharge Sat Sharma (C.A), State secretary Mamta Singh, State spokesperson Sanjiv Sharma, State publicity secretary Aseem Gupta, BJYM State president Ravinder Raina, Kashmira Singh, Nand Kishore, Tarseem Lal, Keshav Sharma, Subash Bhagat Ashish Sareen, Vijay Sharma, Ashwani Sharma, Mukesh Padha, Govind Ram Kandley, Kuldeep Kumar, Raj Singh, Pritam Lal and Sandal Singh.
Jugal Kishore Sharma, while addressing public meetings enroute said that NC-Congress Coalition Government has been unconcerned and unmindful of the plight of the resident of border areas in the same way as it has been ignoring the refugees. He said that the unlucky border people get often caught up in the cross firing and suffer a heavy loss. They also are forced to abandon their homes and hearths and become temporary refugees, he added.
He demanded that the border people be paid compensation for the losses and announced that his Party will raise the issue of border people in Parliament as well as State Assembly and demanded that each border resident be given five marla plot at a safer place for residential purposes and also these residents be accorded RBA status for the purposes government jobs reservation etc.
Dr. Jitendra Singh said that people living in the border area are victims of dual hardship. On the one hand they are victims of Pakistan firing, on the other hand they are victims of apathy of the government of India and the State Government. He said this is unique example in the history of the world that there is a section of refugee population which has not been granted its citizenship right for the last 66 years. Singh said that the discrimination against West Pak Refugees and PoK refugees by the state government is the result of vote bank politics of Kashmir centric ruling parties.
Chander Prakash Ganga said that Samba district has become a district of refugees and homeless border people forced to leave their homes due to Pak firing. Samba district requires special economic package to enable it to withstand the ingress of these unfortunate people.
Thakur Ranjit Singh, while addressing party workers at Hiranagar, said that BJP has been consistently and regularly highlighting the step-motherly treatment being meted out to the people of the Jammu region and it is of considered opinion that without a mass movement this discrimination will not end.
Rajiv Jasrotia said that the BJP has always been highlighting the problems of border people and refugees but it seems that both the governments are sleeping while helpless people are crying for help.
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