Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 11: BJP Lok Sabha candidate for Jammu-Poonch Parliamentary Constituency & State President of the party, Jugal Kishore Sharma bemoaned the miserable plight of Schedule Castes, Other Backward Classes and refugees from West Pakistan and PoJK and charged the NC-Congress coalition Government with willfully neglecting these segments of society.
Addressing corner meetings at Bantalab, Lower Roop Nagar, Gharota, Amb, Sua No. 1, Dayaran, Barnai and Akalpur areas of Raipur-Domana Assembly constituency today, he said it is strange that due reservation share to SC category is being denied in recruitment as well as in promotions. The funds which are sent to the State by the Centre under Special Component Plan for the development of the SC populated towns and villages is being diverted to other sectors and the result is that this community even today lives in medieval ages, he added.
He also expressed his unhappiness over the fact that while the OBCs are entitled to 27% reservation in the rest of the country, in Jammu and Kashmir they are not entitled to even one per cent reservation. “This is utterly unacceptable,”, he added.
Mr Sharma also lambasted the NC and the Congress Government for its negative attitude towards the refugees from West Pakistan and PoJK and said the failure of the State Government to grant citizenship rights to the refugees from West Pakistan and give due compensation to the refugees from POJK for the properties they left behind in 1947 only proves that its approach towards these victims of extremism and communalism is casual.
He appealed to the people to vote for the BJP so that Jammu and Kashmir returns to the Parliament maximum number of members. He said vote for the BJP will be a vote for unity, development, prosperity and future of the country and people and expressed the hope that they would join BJP PM nominee Narendra Modi’s pious 272+ mission and rid India of Congress misrule forever.
Jugal was accompanied by Jammu-Poonch Parliamentary Constituency Incharge Yudhvir Sethi, Local MLA Bharat Bhushan, Senior leader Bansi Lal Bharti, SC Morcha State President Surinder Bhagat, BJYM Vice President Ashish Sareen, Sarpanch Narinder Singh and Ravi Sharma.
Meanwhile, State BJP Vice President Col. Uttam Singh, along with State BJP general secretary Bali Bhagat and Political Advisor to State BJP President Prof. Hari Om, inaugurated an election offices at Domana and Lower Roop Nagar, Muthi.
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