Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 31: Ridiculing her statement to have issued orders on the protection of Gujjar community against harassment, Jammu Province People Forum has questioned Mehbooba Mufti as to who was protecting the tribals since 1947 or even earlier as none of the Governments in the past ever felt need in view of their mutual relations and homely living style in communal harmony with Jammu people since ages.
Addressing a meeting of the Forum, its president P S Bhardwaj said that the JPPF has already requested the Governor to rescind the said unlawful and unconstitutional orders issued with a hidden agenda to forge communal divide in Jammu to disturb its calm atmosphere and to change its demography. “Jimmies have already suffered a lot during the Kashmir centric coalition rule of three years, discriminated not only in addressing unemployment but also in the sphere of development sector,” he added.
Speaking about the cluster of illegal encroachments crept under the protection and patronage of the Kashmir Centric Coalition rule, Mr Bhardwaj said that the prestigious AIIMS Project and the Artificial lake project on Tawi River could not take off till today in view of the illegally occupied State lands under the projects by the tribals for the last couple of years. “Even Jammu City suburbs are infested with the menace of tribal encroachments at Bathindi Sidhra, Gol Gujral. Jammu people never agitated and maintained age old communal harmony in view of the cordial relations and always respected the law of the land, had not even once agitated against Gujjars or Bakarwals community,” he said and added that it was under the mal intentions to create the communal wedge that such unlawful and draconian orders to gain timely sympathy of tribals were issued.
Mr Singh alleged that even in the Rassana rape and murder case of an innocent Bakarwal girl was politically motivated by then Government to crush the voice of Jammu.
Others, who attended the meeting, included Inderjeet Khajuria, Avinash Bhatia, M L Sharma, Sunita Sharma, R Gupta, R S Jamwal, Prof O P Sharma, Prof Darshan Bhatia, Rajesh Thapa, Balwan Singh, Rajiv Mahajan and Pawan Sharma.
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