PM package candidates’ protest enters 107th day

PM package candidates protesting near Press Club on Friday. -Excelsior/Rakesh
PM package candidates protesting near Press Club on Friday. -Excelsior/Rakesh

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 22: The aspirants of PM package candidates who have qualified the written test in 2010 and were not given appointment orders as some posts were reserved for other categories continued their protest at Press Club here on 107th day today.
The protestors including male and female candidates were raising slogans in support of their demand. They alleged that they have become victims of official apathy as being deserving and genuine cases the appointment orders were not deliberately issued in their favour despite the fact that there is no category among the Kashmiri Pandits and posts should not have been reserved for such categories when it was a special package for the displaced Pandits.
They said since last one decade they have been running from pillar to post for justice but to no avail. The protestors said that right from head of the UT and advisors they met every one in the administration but except verbal assurances noting substantial was done to solve their problem. The protestors said that now being at the verge of over age and after losing all source of livelihood in shape of agriculture land and other property, they have no source of income to feed their families.
The protestors said that even majority of them left the private sector jobs in the hope to serve in their motherland Kashmir and further the Government’s move to restore the pluralistic culture of the Valley. But all their hope dashed to ground due to official apathy.
The protestors made an appeal to LG seeking his immediate intervention in the matter on humanitarian grounds.