Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Oct 11: Peeved over the despicable surrenders and blunders of the BJP which betrayed the aspirations of the people of Jammu Pradesh and youth in particular, activists of Panther Party wearing black bands on their arms assembled at party office in Udhampur and took out a massive protest rally seeking regularization and release of pending wages of the daily wagers working in various departments.
The rally which was spearheaded by Harshdev Singh, chairman of the party and Balwant Singh Mankotia State president of NPP after passing through Mukherjee Bazar culminated at Salathia Chowk where the leaders addressed the gathering. The protesters shouting anti- BJP and anti-Government slogans blocked the highway which resulted in a massive traffic jam for more than an hour.
Addressing the gathering, Harshdev said that BJP which was voted to power in the country and the State had failed to realize its promise of ‘Achey Din’ for good governance, development, employment opportunities, literacy, poverty alleviation, etc and was only indulging in rabble rousing and hollow rants for vote bank politics. Taking a pot shot at the BJP, Singh said that the Saffron brigade was busy politicizing the Indian Army’s surgical strikes across LoC on September 29th by marketing the Army’s achievements as its own. He said that Indian Army had been carrying out such strikes earlier as well.
Balwant Singh Mankotia said that BJP had totally succumbed to the commands of Kashmiri leadership by sacrificing the aspirations of the people of Jammu region only for the greed of power. He divulged that youth in particular had voted overwhelmingly in favour of the BJP in the Assembly elections but they appeared to be the major victims of Saffron brigade’s acts of betrayals and subterfuge. He said that daily wagers and casual workers of PHE, PDD, PWD, I&FC, Agriculture, Forest, Tourism, Health & Medical Education, etc were languishing in open protesting for their genuine demands of regularization of services and release of pending wages for more than three years.
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