Excelsior Correspondent
-Excelsior/Rakesh
JAMMU, July 25: To intensify its ongoing movement for setting up of separate AIIMS for Jammu, the AIIMS Coordination Committee (ACC) took out a Lalkaar rally here today.
The people drawn form all walks of life participated in the rally which started from High Court Jammu and warned the Government that no further delay regarding announcement of AIIMS for Jammu will be tolerated.
The rallyists shouting slogans in support of the demand not only accused the Government of betrayal by shifting sanctioned AIIMS from Jammu to Kashmir valley but also not keeping the promise made to the ACC leadership by Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Nirmal Singh and Minister of Forests and Social Welfare, Bali Bhagat who had promised that the announcement will be made by Union Government before July 20 on the assurance of which the Coordination Committee suspended its agitation.
They also took the BJP to task for not respecting the sentiments of people of Jammu region and if the Party continues the same attitude it will face its repercussions all over the country.
Congratulating the people of Jammu for making the Lalkaar rally a success, Chairman of AIIMS Coordination Committee (ACC) and President of JKHCBA, Jammu, Abhinav Sharma said that that the Committee is committed to take its present struggle to logical conclusion
Commenting on the participation of people from all walks of life in the Lalkaar rally, he said It should open the eyes of the BJP. “Any failure of the BJP to appreciate the nature of the rally and suspension of work in all the courts of the Jammu Province for a week would culminate in its political extinction in the region and harm the BJP at the national level also”, he added.
He said the people of Jammu region are fighting for their genuine rights and for protecting the national interests in the State.
He said Government should announce AIIMS for Jammu before Jammu region observes three day long bandh from July 31.
Addressing the Lalkaar rally, former Bar President and senior advocate Bhupinder Singh Salathia declared that the agitating people of Jammu region want that AIIMS which was announced for Jammu be shifted back from Kashmir to this region. The BJP would meet the fate the other parties met in the last.
Assembly elections because of their appeasement policy towards Kashmir in case it failed to reverse its Kashmir centric agenda taking into consideration interests of the region and the country as a whole.
Meanwhile, president Shri Amar Khastriya Rajput Sabha, Narayan Singh, president Kumar Sabha, Pawan Singh, vice-president Narinder Singh and other Sabha members namely Kamal Singh, Balwan Singh, Randhir Singh, Ranjit Singh, Ajay Chib, Vishavjit Singh Manhas, Amit Chib, Sukhdev Salaria, M R Bangotra, Madan Lal Sharma and Ram Slathia sat on chain Hunger Strike on the fifth day, today. The Lalkaar rally made a halt at the venue of hunger strike, and later was joined by hundreds of supporters and it further marched through the streets, bazaars and lanes of Jammu city. The people enroute expressed their solidarity with ACC.
Prominent among others who led the Lalkaar Rally included Narayan Singh, T S Wazir, Ved Raj Wazir, Yashpal Gupta , Inderjit Khajuria, retird Judge Paviter Singh, Devinder Choudhry, Sham Lal Basson, Rajkumar, Dheeraj Pargal, advocate Rajesh Thapa and several other prominent civil society members including those representing business community, transporters and other walks of life.
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