Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 23: Som Nath, senior Vice President Jammu Province, PHE Employees Association joined Panthers Party alongwith his supporters, here today in presence of JKNPP Chairman Harsh Dev Singh, patron Prof Bhim Singh, president Balwant Singh Mankotia and other senior leaders of the party.
While welcoming Som Nath into the party fold, Prof Bhim Singh, Harsh Dev Singh and Balwant Singh Mankotia re-iterated the party’s resolve to continue the struggle for the lower rung employees including DRWs, Casuals, Contractuals and other under employed and un-employed youth fighting for justice.
The NPP leaders appealed the people to oppose, expose and depose those who had betrayed their mandate. NPP is the only viable alternative in the present circumstances which could ensure justice to all deprived classes without fear or favour, they claimed.
Harsh Dev Singh lambasted the Government for refusing adequate security cover to opposition leaders while providing police escorts to even petty workers of BJP. He said that Police administration was behaving as B-team of BJP with huge paraphernalia of police personnel and security vehicles provided to BJP leaders for campaigning in DDC elections while declining even the minimum required security cover to the leaders of opposition parties.
Seeking personal indulgence of the Lt Governor and President of India, Mr Singh said that the existing regime in J&K was not only openly supporting the BJP in DDC elections but had refused to entertain even the genuine concerns of opposition as also their complaints regarding abuse of official machinery by ruling party candidates. Seeking a high level probe into the whole gamut of security allotment, Mr Singh called for punitive action against the officers who were acting more as BJP servants than public servants. He said that non adherence to any set of norms and differential treatment of political parties by abusing of public exchequer and conferring benefits upon favourities was not only a crime but a financial scam which needed due attention of the Lt Governor and Chief Secretary of the UT.
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