Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, Oct 17: Former MLA and senior Democratic Azad Party leader Ashok Sharma today said that Rail Road link to Rajouri-Poonch was sanctioned and aerial survey was conducted in 2004-05 and was declared as a National Project but this project has been kept pending since long and needed to be restored for opening up of tourism and other developmental activities in the region.
The demand was raised during meeting with the delegations of blocks Buffliaz, Surankote and Lassana in Poonch. The Pirpanjal Zone Committee of Democratic Azad Party also strongly raised the demand.
It is pertinent to mention here that this was the first workers’ meet in Poonch in a two days programme of the district by the zone committee.
The committee members comprising of Advocate Ashok Sharma, Ex MLA-MLC, Rajinder Sharma, Zahid Sarfraz Malik, Riyaz Naz and Lovely Gupta were apprised that Rajouri-Poonch being border districts have faced the consequences of 1947, 1965, 1971 and insurgency from early 1990 onwards carried mission of unity, integrity and sovereignty of India but were never rewarded or compensated against their loss of life and property. To equate this region with other areas of Jammu and Kashmir it is necessary to bring whole district of Rajouri and Poonch under Border Area Development Programme (BADP).
The members of the Zone Committee gave patient hearing to the delegations and explained the policy and programmes of Democratic Azad Party which includes restoration of statehood, job and land guarantee to the locals and assured to reach to their blocks with the programme of the party.
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