Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 6: A one-day seminar was organized today by Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan Party (DSSP) at Channi on the topic “Jammu in the present context and a way forward”.
In a day-long brain storming session by top intellectuals, lawyers, social activists and members of social organizations of Jammu resolved to intensify the campaign for “Jammu as a Separate State”.
The Seminar was divided into two sessions; one was devoted to discuss politico-cultural issues and the other to legal issues. The speakers made it clear that the demand of Jammu as a separate state of India is very much justified and qualify all the norms and the guidelines provided in the Indian constitution to make a new state unit of India.
Earlier, Dr Hari Dutt Shishu (general secretary, DSSP) said that DSSP has been trying to bring people of Jammu on a single platform to find out a permanent solution to the issues of Jammu which is possible only through making Jammu as a separate state of India.
Senior Advocate AK Sawhney while speaking in the Legal session of the seminar advocated the formation of separate Jammu state under article 371 with required modification to protect the identity, culture and secular fiber of Jammu.
Justice JP Singh, in his presidential remarks, said that it’s because of the lackadaisical approach of our people that we suffered till date and gave a clarion call to all the people of Jammu to take up this demand vociferously at every forum to realize this in practical terms.
Choudhary Lal Singh expressed confidence that the endorsement by the top intellectuals of Jammu for the demand of separate state will certainly energize the people of Jammu to take up the campaign of Jammu as a separate state, Dogra Certificate and jobs to the locals, more aggressively.
Thakur Gulchain Singh Charak (Chairman, Dogra Sadar Sabha, Jammu), Dr Amrinder Singh Amn (former additional secretary, J&K Art Culture and Languages), Adovocate HC Jalmeria and Major General Goverdhan Singh Jamwal, former IGP Johny Williams, Rajiv Chuni (chairman, SOS International), Advocate Tarlok Nath Gupta and Kanta Andotra also expressed their views.
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