Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 18: Alleging unauthorized occupation of Govt bungalows by the workers of BJP and Apni Party to the exclusion of all other political parties, Panthers Party activists staged a protest outside the residence of Secretary Estates, here today.
Led by Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman-JKNPP and former Minister, the protesting Panthers raised anti-BJP and anti-Estates Deptt slogans. They sought immediate eviction of all BJP and JKAP leaders from Govt and Ministerial bungalows illegally occupied by them in collusion with corrupt officers of J&K.
They also torched the effigies of Estates Deptt and BJP for allegedly looting the tax payers’ money in connivance. The NPP workers pasted notices on the walls of residence of the Estates Deptt Secretary seeking immediate implementation of High Court orders on eviction of illegal occupants and recovery of penal rent from them as often parroted by the Govt.
Addressing the gathering, Harsh Dev Singh said that the BJP leaders who are not holding any position in Government and fall in common man’s category, are occupying not only ‘Special Type’, ‘A-type’ Estates mansions but many of them are still living in Ministerial Bungalows. And while the opposition leaders including ex-Ministers and heads of recognized political parties were hounded out of Estates quarters’ years back through police force, the said BJP and JKAP workers were allowed to retain the same thereby providing the most glaring example of present Govt’s dictatorial and autocratic policies besides being indicative of patronized corruption in BJP rule, rued Harsh.
“The concerned authorities have allowed the BJP leaders to retain the said Estates bungalows despite categoric orders of their eviction issued repeatedly by the High Court,” he said, adding that not only the Estates Bungalows but the security vehicles and PSOs were also being allotted purely on political considerations.
Seeking a high level probe preferably through CBI into the whole gamut of illegal allotments of Govt bungalows and huge encroachments of Govt lands and properties by BJP leaders, Mr Singh called for punitive action against the officers who were acting more as BJP servants than public servants.
Others, who spoke on the occasion, included Rajesh Padgotra, Gagan Pratap Singh, Parshotam Parihar, Mohinder Singh, Vishab Singh, Parladh Singh, Rashpaul Singh, Gurdeep Singh, Sunil Sharma and Sonu Kumar.
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