Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 22: Large number of employees under the banner of All Migrant Employees Association Kashmir today staged a peaceful but massive protest demonstration here to press their genuine demands and issues. The employees with their faces covered wanted to give a clear message to State and Centre that they feel scared and were neglected and deprived by the establishment.
The protest was also joined by children of employees who according to their parents are without education for last more than two months after they have returned to Jammu following unrest and incidents of stone pelting by anti social and anti national elements on their residential quarters at some transit camps.
Holding banners and placards in their hands, hundreds of aggrieved employees gathered at Jammu Press Club and staged a strong demonstration. They were raising slogans in favour of their demands besides alleging that they have been deprived of their basic rights after the then governments compelled them to join jobs in Valley under PM’s package associated with harsh set of guidelines. They said that the package was implemented in haste without taking various factors into consideration.
“We are citizens of this country and have every right to seek justice. We have faced lot of miseries and sorrows in our life during long period of migration. Today, we are again on cross roads and yet there seems no end to our worries,” said, a protesting employee Sunil Bhat, adding that they demanded that Government must understand their pain and provide them an opportunity to put their views so that an amicable solution could be find out to their issues.
A mother accompanied by her two children said that “it is very unfortunate and shameful that not a single representative from the Government visited to us to know our grievances. This shows how much Government is serious in dealing with issues of migrants.” “The education of my children got affected due to unrest in Valley and I am still in dilemma what to do my children,” she added.
Making an appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to concede their demands, these employees stated that they are pinning hope on the BJP-PDP leadership for redressal of their demands. These employees were seeking adjustment in camp offices at Jammu by citing many reasons and factors for it.
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