Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 1: The nine- day long Refugees Adhikaar Yatra started by BJP from border district of Poonch on October 24 concluded with a grand rally at R.S Pura today in which a large number of party activists and refugees of West Pakistan and PoK took part.
BJP MP & J&K Prabhari Avinash Rai Khanna who was the main speaker in the rally while congratulating the State team for successful conduct of the yatra, said that J&K is the only State in the country where more than 12 lakh people are living with the tag of refugees. He said that calling them refugees is a curse. The BJP is committed to get it removed and ensure that the refugees who have been agitating for the last over six decades are granted all the rights which are being enjoyed by other citizens of the country and they too live a dignified life, he added.
State President Jugal Kishore Sharma reiterating party’s commitment for the cause of refugees, said that “we are born for the social service and whenever there is discrimination, neglect, injustice or atrocities, the BJP activists have always been on forefront and our fight for refugees and border people will continue inside the State Assembly as well as on roads’’.
Leader of BJP Legislature party Ashok Khajuria while highlighting the reasons for taking out this yatra, said that the refugees need to be educated about the dual speak of NC and Congress leaders, who advocate that refugees should get rights but don’t explain as to who will grant these rights when both these parties are in the Government.
National executive member Shamsher Singh Manhas said that refugees in J&K have always been ignored.
State general secretary & yatra incharge Rajiv Jasrotia briefed in detail the ground realities prevailing in the areas where refugee people have been putting, adding that the yatra has been successful in its motive of highlighting the problems of refugees.
Suchetgarh MLA Sham Choudhary said that his constituency houses the population of border people as well as refugees and they all have been left at the mercy of God.
Refugee leader Ved Prakash Sharma, regretted that after the partition of the country till today lakhs of refugees have not been treated as human beings.
District president Sat Pal Pappi also spoke while district general secretary Capt.(retd) Karnail Singh presented vote of thanks.
Dr. Jitendra Singh, Chander Prakash Ganga, Col.(retd) Uttam Singh, Ramesh Arora, Chander Mohan Sharma, Ashok Koul, Suresh Jamwal, Sat Sharma (C.A), Er. Gulam Ali Khatana, Harinder Gupta, Munish Sharma, Chander Mohan Gupta, Parmodh Kapahi, Aseem Gupta, Sanjiv Sharma, Charanjit Singh Khalsa, Yudhvir Sethi, Rajni Sethi, Ravinder Raina, Karan Singh, Priya Sethi, Sukhnandan Kumar (MLA), Rashpal Verma, Sanjay Khanna were among the prominent BJP leaders who attended the rally.
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