Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 11: For how long the people of Jammu region will suffer discrimination? questioned Chairman of the AIIMS Coordination Committee (ACC) and president of JKHCBA, Jammu, Abhinav Sharma while addressing a large gathering of civil society members representing cross-sections of society at Ashoka Market, Raghunath Bazaar, here today.
“Since past 67 years, Jammu continued to remain victim of Kashmir centric policies adopted both by State as well as Central Governments. People of Jammu have suffered a lot in each and every field due to step-motherly treatment by Kashmiri rulers. Even for small and petty issues as well as for justified due share, people of Jammu region had to come on roads to express their anguish”, he said.
“For how long we will have to suffer. Enough is enough. We will have to prepare for a big struggle so that it becomes an eye-opener for Kashmiri rulers that from now onwards they should not dare to take Jammu people for granted”, asserted Abhinav Sharma while lambasting PDP-BJP Coalition Government.
“We were never given our due share be it jobs, allocation of funds, establishment of Engineering College, Medical College, Universities, new districts and new administrative units etc. It was only after the people of Jammu took the agitational path that Kashmiri rulers delivered our due and legitimate share”, he further said.
Abhinav Sharma urged the people to get ready for a mass movement across Jammu region in case BJP failed to honour its commitment by July 20. “This is a litmus test for the BJP. If it fails to deliver the promise by that day, it would lose all of its credibility. People of Jammu region, who are already extremely angry with the BJP for the anti-Jammu agenda of alliance it accepted to come into power in J&K, would not forgive it”, Abhinav Sharma said, adding that the BJP would become a story of the past if it failed to fulfill the solemn commitment.
Prominent among others who addressed the gathering included Baldev Khullar, president, Raghunath Bazaar Traders Association, Vinod Sachdeva, Jugal Mahajan, Retd Sessions Judge and president JPPF, Pavitar Singh, Dr C L Gupta, president Panun Kashmir, Ajay Chrungoo, president Ware House Traders Association, Rajesh Gupta, Kanak Mandi Traders Association, president Vijay Gupta, Dheeraj Pargaal, vice-president Lower Raghunath Bazaar Association and S Peter.
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