Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 29: Flaying the State Government for its neglect in recommending the grant of ST status to ‘Koli’s’ alongwith the Pahari speaking people, JKNPP chairman and former Minister Harshdev Singh has described it as yet another obnoxious doze of discriminatory treatment administered to the hitherto deprived Jammu region.
He pointed out the State cabinet in its yesterday meeting recommended the grant of ST status to Pahari speaking people but contemptuously ignored the ‘Kolis’ despite its election time promises besides its commitments in the Agenda of Alliance.
“While PDP-BJP Agenda of Alliance on Page 10 categorically provided for the grant of ST status to Kolis and Paharies, the State cabinet disdainfully omitted to make any mention of ‘Kolis’ in the Cabinet deliberations as the latter were the inhabitants of purely Jammu region,” he explained and regretted that even the communiqués of the Union Government and PMO Office on the subject were disregarded by State Government. for the reasons best known to them.
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