Excelsior Correspondent
KATHUA, June 24: The displaced persons from PoK of 1947, 1965 and 1971 (camp/ non-camp) held a protest demonstration at Mini Stadium Hiranagar in district Kathua today.
A large number of refugees from Pak occupied Jammu and Kashmir under the leadership of tehsil president K L Bakshi assembled at the local stadium at border town of Hiranagar in the morning and started protest demonstration against the Government. They were demanding disbursement of package amount announced by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
They shouted loud slogans against State and the Central Government. Some of them were carrying banner and placards depicting their demands.
The speakers at the rally pointed out that even after the lapse of over seven months of this announcement, the Government has failed to provide relief amount to the displaced persons. They said that this package cannot be treated as full and final as many other issues and components of the package have been set aside. There is no mention of these components in the package. It is strange to observe that even the recommendations of the Joint Parliamentary Committee have been ignored.
K L Bakshi, president and Om Parkash Chib, vice president, criticized the State authorities and advocated for the inclusion of non-registered/ left out families in the list. They also demanded grant of ownership rights on custodian land/ property. They also demanded that process for providing compensation be simplified.
Narinder Pal Singh president Youth Wing demanded reservation for the wards of PoK DPs in professional colleges and jobs, allotment of agriculture land to all category of refugees and political reservation to the members of this category.
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