Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 4: A meeting of District Congress Committee Jammu Urban was held here today at PCC HQ Shahidi Chowk Jammu , under the chairmanship of Vikram Malhotra -District President and attended by DCC Office bearers, Block & Ward Presidents and Corporators.
Vikram Malhotra, while addressing the meeting, said that the party is gearing up to launch a mass protest and agitations to force the Central Government to restore the Statehood of the Dogra State of Jammu and Kashmir. Speaking to the DCC leaders, Block Presidents and Booth level delegates, he said that the State of Jammu and Kashmir has been reduced to the level of administration unit and the glory of the State has been snatched and ruined at hands of BJP. He added the even after formal transition of J&K from State to UT on the 31st October, the issue of domicile safeguard and job safety and security has been left unaddressed. The future of lakhs of unemployed youth is in jeopardy, he added.
Vikram Malhotra said that present dispensation is turning a blind eye towards the apprehensions and concerns of people of the State, especially Jammu region. Expressing solidarity with the lawyers, he said that ever as the strike of the lawyers has entered 6 days there has been no effort on the part of the Government to resolve the stalemate, similarly the striking PDD employees have taken to streets for the past several weeks but their demands and concerns seem to fall on deaf ears.
He urged upon the party workers to unite and protest against the anti people decisions of this Government and become the voice of the people of Jammu.
Among other, who addressed the meeting, included B B Gupta, Dr Rama Kant Khajuria, Krishan Lal, Madan Lal Malagar, Jyoti Vaid, Veena Sharma, Gourav Chopra, Ritu Choudhary, Ch Dawarka, Deepak Kumar, Amrit Bali, Man Mohan Sharma, J L Koul, Camres David Bablu, Ram Parkash Mangotra, Michael Wazir, Parshotam Mehra, Sat Pal Sapolia, Vijay Chib, Anil Kohli, Chander Shekhar, Sushant Gupta, Atul Sharma, Rajinder Gupta, Suresh Sharam, Gourav Kapoor, Rajan Gupta, Ajay Mehra, Raj Kumar Sodi, Vaibhav Mattoo, Vishal Gupta,Parvinder Kaur, Anil Kumar, Charu Gosh Sharma, Rama Devi and Ram Lal.