Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 4: Expressing anger against present regime, a large number of National Panthers Party activists assembled outside the Raj Bhavan near Panjtirthi Chowk and took out a large rally in Jammu city under the leadership of Prof Bhim Singh chief patron of the party, chairman Harshdev Singh and State president Balwant Singh Mankotia.
The NPP workers assembled near Raj Bhavan and started protest against the BJP’s despicable surrenders amid an unprecedented deployment of the security personnel. The rally after passing through several markets of the city culminated at Dogra Chowk, near Press Club.
The protestors were carrying party flags and the placards and raised slogans expressing their resentment and against BJP’s surrender of Jammu’s interests and aspirations before the PDP for the lust of power. They were shouting slogans… “Jammu Ka AIIMS, Jammu Ko Do, “Jammu Ke Sath Bhed Bhav…. Band Karo”, … “Jammu Virodhi Sarkar .. Hai Hai”, “Desh Virodhi Sarkar ….Hai Hai”, “Yuva Aur Kisan Virodhi Sarkar …..Hai Hai”, “BJP-PDP Sarkar Hai Hai”, “Nai Bhart Neeti ..Vapis Lo”.
Lambasting the Coalition Government for transferring the prestigious Rs 1600 crores AIIMS project to Kashmir in dissonance to the initial announcement of the Union Government to establish the premier health institute in Jammu region, Prof Bhim Singh flayed the BJP’s sinister surrender of the long cherished dream of the people of Jammu to the leaders of the Valley. Mr Singh said that the duration of the B Ed course in the University of Kashmir and the Central University of Kashmir is one year from the session 2015-16 and the duration of the said course in the University of Jammu has been revised to two years.
Harshdev Singh lamented that the audacious scope of discrimination extending upon the students of education discipline is a bizarre incident in the history. He said one State cannot be governed by two laws on the same subject. The former Education Minister wondered how could two Universities in one State with same Chancellor, Pro- Chancellor and the Ministry of Higher Education can adopt two distinct policies regarding the same course and maintained that the obnoxious move is utterly unconstitutional, unethical and unscrupulous. He questioned the criminal silence of the BJP ministers over the issue. He said that today’s rally which has garnered huge public support has been successfully able to expose the BJP of its malafide and deceitful intensions towards the people of Jammu region and has emerged as the one and only reckoning force to raise the voice of the people in letter and spirits.
Senior party leaders Balwant Singh Mankotia and Yash Pal Kundal also addressed the gathering. They said the rally has been taken out to protest against shelving artificial lake project of Jammu, seeking State Subject for West Pak Refugees, Voting rights to them in Assembly and Local Bodies polls, State Govt jobs for such WPRs, issuance of Dogra certificate to Jammu youth, State Subject for children of daughters of J&K married outside, Empowerment of Jammu, abolition of Custodian Deptt and conferment of ownership rights to its occupants, revocation of the new recruitment policy, Smart City for Jammu, Uniformity in the duration of B.Ed course in Jammu etc.
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