Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 1: All J&K Home Guard Welfare Association (HGWA) today took out a protest rally demanding implementation of Supreme Court order regarding bringing Home Guards at par with police department constables.
Hundreds of Home Guards drawn from various parts of Jammu region this morning assembled at Mubarak Mandi and moved in the form of a rally towards Civil Secretariat. However, strong contingent of police deployed near Parade Ground stopped them from moving forward.
Raising slogans against PDP-BJP Coalition Government in the State for ignoring the SC order, in which the State administration was directed to bring Home Guards of J&K at par with constables in Police Department, the protesting Home Guards stage a sit-in protest in front of the Parade ground gate and disrupted vehicular traffic for some time.
Addressing the protesters, Kamla Sharma, president of the Association, said that the Government had sought a week’s time to implement the SC order but it has elapsed the stipulated time and did nothing to implement the order.
“It is a matter of grave concern that other states like Punjab, Haryana, HP, Delhi, MP, Telangana and Jharkhand have already implemented the order then why J&K Government is shying away to implement the order”, she said and demanded the Government to implement the order without any delay.
She said that State Home Guards are doing their assigned jobs with full dedication and hard work but the authorities have no concern with the hardships being faced by them. She regretted that no MLA or MLC raised the issue of Home Guards in the ongoing Assembly session.
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