Separate Jammu State is need of hour: Mankotia

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 28: To declare Jammu province a separate State National Panthers Party has initiated a  “Haq Insaf Rath Yatra” which reached at Jib Thathi today . A large number of people of the area including hundreds of Panthers Party activists under the leadership of State president of the Party and Ex- MLA Balwant Singh Mankotia participated.
Panthers activists were on scooters, motorcycles and light vehicles. They reached at village Kamal Danga in shape of a rally.
While addressing the rally Mankotia  expressed that right from 1947 Jammu region was made a scapegoat of National and Kashmir Centric political parties for their political interests. He further said that now the people  of Jammu region have understand that BJP is becoming the B team of PDP in Jammu & Kashmir State and they have surrendered in front of PDP for the lust of power and fulfilling their anti- India and anti- Jammu agenda.
People of Jammu region are totally fed up with the political parties those are advocating J&K United State because they have understood that present State Government has crossed the every limit of discrimination with the people of Jammu region.
Mankotia further said that National Panthers Party is struggling for the people of Jammu region against the discrimination with the people and we have initiated  “Haq Insaf Rath Yatra” to declare Jammu a  separate State. He criticized MLA Udhampur Assembly Constituency Pawan Gupta for not fulfilling the election commitments.
He also said that our youth are becoming drunkards and in coming days Panthers Party is going to start an agitation to impose ban on the sale of wine in Jammu & Kashmir. Sukhdev Singh, Sudesh Sharma,   Sanjeet Sharma, Jagdev Jaga, Hoshiyar Singh, Subash Singh, Manohar Bhagat, Rajinder Bali and Ram Paul Bhagat also addressed the public gathering.