Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 6: Accusing the J&K administration of circumventing the Supreme Court directions by prolonging the ban on high speed mobile internet services in J&K time and gain, Panther activists led by Harsh Dev Singh (chairman JKNPP) and Yashpal Kundal (state president Young Panthers) staged a protest demonstration at Gandhi Nagar, here today.
While demanding immediate restoration of 4G mobile internet services, the angry protesters raised anti-Government slogans and torched effigy of BJP Government to express their resentment. Click here to watch video
Speaking on the occasion, Harsh Dev Singh lambasted the Government for continuing with its policy of suppression and facilitating organized loot of millions of mobile subscribers. “Not only the people are restricted from accessing mobile internet services by the Government but they are also robbed of their hard earned money by the telecom service providers. The capitalist companies are charging the regular tariff from millions of subscribers without providing them the facility of 4G services,” he added.
“In view of these companies hiking their tariffs of late, the volume of extortion is beyond imagination since 5th August 2019. People have been blatantly duped during the Corona pandemic with no one to take cognizance. Should subscribers not get the refund for having been kept deprived of mobile internet services despite making payment for actual tariff plans?”, angry Harsh asked.
Asserting that resumption of 2G services on mobile phones has made a mockery of the users, Singh said it was exceptionally feeble, slow and disallows access to all the sites. “While the students still continue to suffer in attending on- line classes in view of Corona pandemic, the online services including the procurement of the domicile certificate remain inaccessible in the far flung areas due to the absence of 4G internet services,” said Harsh.
Stating that prolonged internet blockade of this kind is bizarre, Harsh said Panthers party would be forced to launch a huge stir if full fledge high speed 4G mobile internet services are not restored at the earliest.
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