Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, May 7: A large number of Panthers Party activists led by party chairman and former Minister Harshdev Singh held protest demonstration near Union Parliament demanding restoration of AIIMS to Jammu.
The party chairman along with senior leaders Balwant Singh Mankotia, State president and Yash Pal Kundal State president, young Panthers, today held a massive demonstration near the Parliament where their procession was stopped by a strong contingent of Delhi Police who put up huge barricades on the road in front of the Parliament Street Police Station. The protesters raised slogans against the Coalition Govt of J&K, Central Govt and pro- Jammu slogans. The Panthers Party leaders who started their procession from Jantar Mantar for restoration of AIIMS to Jammu were addressed by several senior leaders.
Addressing the gathering Harshdev Singh said that it was not merely a matter of AIIMS for Jammu but the larger question of the self respect and pride of Jammu people. He said that it was highly distressing that Jammu people were always treated as B- Class citizens as against highly pampered and mollycoddled Kashmir region. He regretted that people of Jammu region had to agitate and take to streets even for the basic amenities despite having elected representatives to espouse their cause. Lambasting the BJP for its unprincipled politics, Mr Singh said that by gifting AIIMS to Kashmir the BJP had indulged in the most treacherous bargain only to play a second fiddle to the PDP Govt.
He said that people of Jammu would no longer reconcile to their second class categorization by a highly biased and prejudiced Kashmir centric leadership. He said that the JKNPP had decided to take the fight for Jammu to every nook and corner of the State besides agitating the persistent neglect of the region in front of the Parliament in New Delhi. Lambasting the BJP for submitting to the whims of its coalition partner on the issue of AIIMS, he said the saffron party had completely disillusioned the people of Jammu region and earned their wrath for succumbing on all the issues with the public outrage having reached its crescendo.
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