Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 15: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) today began a relay hunger strike here against what it called “socio-political discrimination meted out to Jammu” by the PDP-BJP Government.
A group of nearly two dozen JKNPP activists from Reasi district began the hunger strike near Tawi bridge in the heart of the city and will be replaced by the volunteers from Udhampur district tomorrow, the party said in a statement here. It said the relay hunger strike at the Maharaja Hari Singh Memorial would continue till “justice” is granted to Jammu region.
Chairman JKNPP and former Minister Harsh Dev Singh alleged that there had been a “huge regional bias” in the recruitments made by the Government for the last three years which revealed “abysmally low share of Jammu region dropping to mere three to four per cent as compared to the Kashmir valley”.
He appealed the people of Jammu and Kashmir to participate en masse in the Panther’s Reorganization movement which was the only way out to liberate the people of Jammu Pradesh from the rule of corrupt leadership forever so that the people of all three regions shall live with pride, dignity and honour.
He asked the State Government to immediately come out with the regularization policy of the all the contractual employees including lecturers, NHM and MGNREGA employees, SPOs, Home Guards, Anganwari and ASHA workers, terminated Wireless Operators, etc who were made to languish in open after utilizing their services for long
Elucidating the traumatic subjugation being experienced by the people of Jammu region and youth in particular in all spheres, Balwant Singh Mankotia said that with the entire concentration of the successive State as well as Central Governments on Kashmir, the Jammu region was perpetually left neglected economically and politically to face severe identity crisis.
He further rued that events like obnoxious policy for rehabilitation of the surrender militants and stone pelters, jobs and compensation for NoKs of deceased anti- national elements, appeasement of secessionist forces in the Valley and aversion towards the nationalists had generated resentment among the people of Jammu region.
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