Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 17: A protest demonstration was held at Kunjwani Chowk by the representatives of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Chowk Coordination Committee and Aam-Aadmi Party activists for inviting attention of the Government for naming Kunjwani Chowk as Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Chowk and also installing the statue of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur.
The call was supported by various Sikh organizations and DGPC Jammu.
Sukhdev Singh, convenor of the committee, Manmohan Singh Member DGPC Jammu, Kulvinder Singh president Gurdwara Guru Nanak Dev Ji Chand Nagar, Jammu, Manjeet Singh former secretary DGPC, Brig Rajinder Singh, Manjeet Singh, Jagjot Singh Raina, Surinder Singh Shinda, Jagjit Singh, several Gurudwara Management Committees and office bearers from AAP attended the dharna. Vipul Bali, Amandeep Singh, Vishal Arya, Humanshu Gupta, Anita Gupta, Bilal Khan and Meenu Mahajan from AAP also joined them.
While speaking on the occasion, Sukhdev Singh condemned the attitude of the Government in causing delay to declare the name of Chowk as Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Chowk and for not installing the statue of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur at Kunjwani Chowk. He demanded that the demand of the community to install statue of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur at the already decided place be immediately fulfilled without further delay.
Speaker J&K Legislative Assembly, Kavinder Gupta has already announced Rs 10 lakh from the Constituency Development Fund for the same. MoS in PMO Dr Jitendra Singh and BJP national secretary R P Singh had also supported the cause.
The participants also highlighted the biography of the Amar Shaheed Baba Banda Singh Bahadur. He further announced that in future this issue will be taken by the Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Chowk Coordination Committee in which non political persons, representatives of All India Manahas Baradari and representatives of all the NGOs will be invited to launch united struggle.
Mr Bali said that the demand for naming of Kunjwani Chowk in the name of Amar Shaheed Baba Banda Singh Bahadur has already been taken since long and a representation in this regard was also submitted by the Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Foundation to the Secretary to Government Housing and Urban Development Department J&K and the case is already lying with the Government.
It is hoped that MLA Gandhi Nagar will take up the matter with the Government and get the approval for naming of Kunjwani Chowk in the name of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Chowk.
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