‘PoJK Remembrance Day’
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 5: Chairman SOS International – an organization for PoJK displaced persons, Rajiv Chuni, has appealed to all members of the PoJK community to participate in maximum number in the upcoming “Shradhanjali Avm Punyabhumi Smarn Sabha”.
The Remembrance Day is scheduled to be held on Sunday, May 08, 2022 at 10.30 am at Padma Shree Padma Sachdeva, Government College for Women, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu, Ground.
In a Press Conference, which was attended by prominent members of the community such as Prof NN Sharma, VK Datta, Amarjit Singh, Ved Raj Bali and others, Chuni appealed the PoJK community members residing in Jammu, Marh, Akhnoor, Khour, RS Pura, Bishnah, Vijaypur, Samba, Hiranagar, Kathua, Nowshera, Rajouri, Kalakote, Mendhar and Poonch to participate in maximum numbers in this grand programme.
He said tribute will be paid to thousands of people from Hindu and Sikh communities who laid down their lives while fighting Tribal and Pakistan Army raid in districts of Muzaffarabad, Mirpur and Poonch of J&K State in October-November, 1947. He added, on October 22, 1947 it was a full attack by the Pakistani Army on J&K and not a tribal raid as projected by Pakistan and some other people on this part.
” We are using social media platforms to reach every individual from the community. As per the reports coming from our different local organizational units, our people are very keen to participate in this program,” Chuni further said, claiming that the proposed function would be historic in the ongoing struggle of PoJK displaced persons.
Chuni said, “I appeal to the community members spread across the country to participate in the upcoming function and bear witness to the remembrance day-which will give a new direction and pace to our peaceful movement aimed at recognition of our basic constitutional rights which are otherwise denied to us by all the Governments till date.”
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