NSF demands separate statehood for Jammu

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, May 14:  National Secular Forum (NSF) has vowed to continue its fight against the discrimination being meted out to Jammuites at the hands of Kashmiri rulers and reiterated that separate statehood for Jammu was the only way out to permanently end this discrimination.
Addressing a press-conference, here today, NSF president Dr Vikas Sharma flayed the PDP-BJP Coalition Government for meting step-motherly treatment to the people of Jammu. He particularly took BJP MLAs to the task for maintaining stoic silence on the issue even as people of Jammu were facing worst kind of discrimination at the hands of Kashmiri rulers.
Alleging that blue eyed candidates were being recruited by the PSC at the instance of State Government, he urged the youth to stand up and ask for their right which was being denied to them by the successive State Governments. “People voted BJP to power with a hope to get equal share in development but the situation turned more worst as BJP MLAs are too playing second fiddle to Kashmiri leadership and compromising with the interest of Jammu people,” he said.