Excelsior Correspondent
REASI, Jan 24: Talwara migrants today staged a massive dharna in front of the office of District Magistrate (DM) here, demanding relief as per SC judgment.
Hundreds of militancy-affected migrants of Rajouri, Reasi, Udhampur and Doda districts resorted to a massive dharna in front of the DM office this morning. They were demanding implementation of 2007 Supreme Court direction to the Government of India to pay them (Talwara migrants) the cash relief at par with the Kashmiri migrants.
Addressing the protesting migrants, Prof Bhim Singh, Chief Patron of National Panthers Party (NPP) and Member of NIC accused NC-Congress Coalition Government in J&K of ignoring Jammu Migrants.
The State Government is forcing the Talwara migrants to starve and die in distress only because they are from Jammu Pradesh, he said and reminded the Central Government that Supreme Court in July 2007 had directed the Central Government as well as State Government to pay Rs 21 crore to the Jammu Migrants as arrears because they had not been provided any relief since 2004.
Prof Bhim Singh said that the Supreme Court had referred a contempt petition to the High Court of J&K in 2009 for appropriate action, but the High Court has not been able to ensure implementation of his own order in four years, he regretted.
He alleged that half of the migrants who were determined and approved by the Government have been deleted from the list of the migrants.
The migrants in a resolution decided to march to Delhi and stage dharna in front of Parliament in February 2014 to seek implementation of Supreme Court order.
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