Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 20: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party will contest five out of six Parliamentary seats in Jammu and Kashmir in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Prof Bhim Singh, Advocate Hari Chand Jalmeria and Syed Rafiq Shah will be the party candidates from Udhampur-Doda, Jammu-Poonch and Baramulla seats, respectively while the candidates for Srinagar and Anantnag seats will be announced very soon.
Informing this to media persons, here today, JKNPP senior leader Harshdev Singh said that the party would formally kick off its election campaign from March 23, which is the foundation day of Panthers Party. He also disclosed that Jammu-Poonch candidate would file his nomination papers on March 22.
“The Panthers Party will seek vote for effectively highlighting the issues of Jammu, which has been discriminated by the successive State Government while no Member Parliament from here ever raised voice for the region in Parliament,” he said.
Listing the JKNPP demands, such as re-organization of Jammu Kashmir State, separate Civil Secretariats for Jammu and Kashmir provinces, bifurcation of SSRB, BOPEE etc, Harshdev Singh said that the party would demand special package as compensation to J&K for the discrimination meted out to the region since decades.
Claiming that JKNPP was the only party that vigorously and vociferously advocated cause of Jammu, Mr Singh alleged that Bhartiya Janata Party had a hidden agenda and was in secret alliance with National Conference.
He also highlighted the achievements of Prof Bhim Singh as a politician who has been serving people of Jammu and Kashmir for the last 50 years. “Statute of Bhim Singh can be gauged from the fact that Congress is feeling nervous and undecided over the party candidate from Udhampur-Doda,” Harshdev Singh said and appealed people to vote and support JKNPP candidates in the Lok Sabha elections.
MLA Samba, Yash Pal Kundal and some other leaders of the JKNPP were also present in the press conference.
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