Excelsior Correspondent
KATHUA, Apr 7: Launching a scathing and ferocious attack on the BJP for playing the politics of betrayal with the people of Jammu Pradesh, National Panthers Party (NPP) today staged a massive protest demonstration led by Balwant Singh Mankotia, Ex-MLA and president JKNPP, Yashpal Kundal, Ex-MLA and president, Young Panthers, along with several other senior leaders and activists at District headquarters.
Hundreds of NPP activists assembled at Kathua city and took out a protest march (procession) which passed through several markets and blocked the road due to which the vehicular traffic remained stranded for hours. The procession culminated near DC office where the angry protestors set ablaze an effigy of State Government and raised slogans against the BJP-PDP coalition dispensation.
Mankotia while addressing the activists kick started the most coveted agitation for the restoration of AIIMS to Jammu Pradesh and sought a strong public support to make it successful. He disclosed that a day before the Government formation in J&K, Arun Jaitley, Union Finance Minister, had categorically announced the establishment of AIIMS worth Rs 1600 crores in Jammu.
He said that the coalition Government played the biggest mischief by clandestinely administering the obnoxious doze of discrimination to Jammu region by surrendering AIIMS to Kashmir that was actually announced for Jammu region.
“BJP has retreated from all the tall promises made to the electorate of Jammu Pradesh ahead of Assembly elections last year but it sold the pious mandate of Jammu Pradesh and meekly surrendered before the PDP for the political gains”, Mankotia maintained.
Yashpal Kundal while addressing the activists disclosed that the previous NC-Congress dispensation had promised a Medical College at Kathua but the proposal is still gathering dust. He said that BJP had also promised the people to carry forward the work on the proposal if they were voted to power but now seeing the surrendered posture of the BJP people are feeling cheated, humiliated and hood winked.
Rajesh Pargotra, provincial president also spoke on the occasion.
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