Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 4: Peeved over non- initiation of any action for deportation of illegal immigrants including Rohingyas and Bangladeshis from Jammu despite repeated assurances by the Centre and J&K Govt, a large number of NPP workers led by party chairman Harshdev Singh held a massive demonstration at Exhibition Ground here today.
While raising slogans ‘Rohingyas, Bangladeshis go back, ‘BJP Hai Hai’, ‘Dogli Siyasat Nahin Chalegi, Nahin Chalegi,” the agitated protestors accused the BJP of sheltering the illegal foreign immigrants in Jammu province and sought their eviction without any further delay.
Addressing the media, Singh maintained that the said illegal immigrants described as security threat, had continued to occupy plots close to vital defence installations including Sunjwan, Nagrota in the vicinity of 16 corps HQs of Indian Army, Police Lines, Railway tracks without any resistance. He regretted that each time the people of Jammu protested against their settlement in the city of temples, the Centre come out with a stereo type reply that their biometric details were being collected.
Singh observed that these illegal immigrants described as ‘ticking time bombs’ by the security agencies had been found active in fuelling narco smuggling, human trafficking, child abductions, beggary, border crossing and other crimes. Moreover, there were reports of Rohingyas having been involved in the sacrilegious acts in the past to flare up communal tension in Jammu city which had instigated the people to come on the roads to lodge their protest, Harshdev divulged.
He said that the number of illegal foreign immigrants had soared under BJP rule with several thousand Rohingyas camping in Jammu and Samba districts. They had illegally built slums at some of the congested colonies in Jammu city and managed to procure PRCs, Aadhar cards, Ration cards, mobile SIM cards, free water and electric connections besides admissions of their children in Govt. schools.
Terming their early repatriation as need of the hour, he reminded the Union Home Minister Amit Shah that the natives of Myanmar and Bangladesh had already been identified in Jammu city and its adjacent peripheries. He urged upon him to immediately respond to the grave situation and direct the State Govt. to ensure deportation of these unlawful immigrants from J&K without any further delay in the larger interests of peace and security.
Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion included Rajesh Padgotra, Parshotam Parihar, Surinder Chouhan, KK Sharma, Nirmal Kishore, Neeraj Gupta, Capt Sultan Singh, Yashpaul Sharma, Shankaar Singh Sanju, Kunwar Bali, Rashpaul Singh, Rohit Sharma, Ravinder Chib, Subash Charak, Amandeep Singh besides others.
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