Excelsior Correspondent
—Excelsior/Gautam
SAMBA, June 25: Jats of Jammu and Kashmir today held a protest demonstration at Tehsil Office, Samba for granting OBC Status to Jats and for settlement of refugee issues of PoJK 1947, 1965 and 1971 under the able leadership of Ch. Kamal Singh, President Jat Kalyan Sabha, who is spearheading the agitation for the last more than nine years.
Addressing the demonstrators Ch Kamal Singh said that Jats of all other states of Indian Union have been granted OBC status and the State of Jammu and Kashmir has been left out. The leaders of ruling alliance in State are misleading the community on one pretext or the other. Sometimes they are promising the strip of 8 Kms along the International Border is likely to be included in RBA category and sometimes they are pretending strip of 8 kms along the International Border is likely to be covered under ALC category, he added.
He said that these all are white lies of the political leaders of ruling alliance in the State and till not even a single village of the community has been included in the RBA category. With the result the community has got annoyed with the ruling Congress and National Conference Party and now people of the community have taught a lesson to both these parties in the recently held Parliamentary elections in the State of their partisan attitude. He warned the ruling alliance to desist from delaying tactics and misleading the innocent community who have suffered a lot during the partition of the country and in various Indo-Pak conflicts time and again.
Ch. Kamal Singh informed the media that more than 70% of the community are refugees of Deva Batala, Bhimber and Chhamb and are settled along Indo-Pak Border and Actual Line of Control from Kathua to Uri and have to suffer a lot during the Indo-Pak wars of 1974, 1965 and 1971 and 1999 Kargil Conflict. They could not provide standard education owing to their habitations on borders which always remained disturbed after independence. They are living a pathetic life without proper civic amenities in the area.
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