Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Apr 1: Disseminating the agenda of separate Statehood of Jammu Pradesh among the masses, JKNPP’s “Haq Insaaf Rath” spearheaded by Balwant Singh Mankotia and other party leaders today kick started the most coveted campaign from Salathia Chowk.
The leaders made the people aware about socio-political discrimination which they were being doled by the successive Kashmir and Delhi based Governments. Mankotia, while addressing the series of public gatherings on the way, said that the separate State was the only solution to all the biases suffered by the Dogras and the Paharis for the last 70 years.
The rath finally reached Jammu where the NPP leaders addressed a public meeting at Ward No 65 at Barnai. Mankotia while addressing the people at Barnai said that all the sections of Jammu region were the victims of discrimination and prejudices perpetuated by the Kashmir centric leadership since 1947. He said that farmers were not paid any compensation against their colossal loss pertaining to crops, live stock, precious lives which were washed away by the catastrophic rains of September 2014 and thereafter.
Similarly, border residents were facing the wrath of heavy Pak shelling and firing who were persistently denied plots measuring 5 marlas at safer zones. He said that the State coffers remained dry for the families of the martyrs who laid down their precious lives while serving the Motherland.
Taking the jibe at the BJP for betraying the Jammu youth, he said the 85% selections to Government jobs in PSC and SSB went to the youth of the valley and the youth of Jammu was made to content with rest 15%.
Moreover, the underemployed youth were languishing in open for regularization of their services. He said that the latest example of discrimination came to fore when the GoI enhanced only 13 PG seats in Medical College Jammu while 57 seats went to Kashmir valley.
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