Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 21: Hailing the decision of the LG administration to declare September 23 as a public holiday as a mark of respect for last Dogra ruler Maharaja Hari Singh, Team Jammu chief Zorawar Singh Jamwal today said that for the first-time after 1947 Government at the helm of the affairs respected aspirations and emotions of the residents of Jammu Province.
“The historic decision by LG Administration is a beginning and has vindicated the stand of Team Jammu taken in 2015, that a day would not be far when, J&K’s narrative would be set from Jammu,” he said while addressing a meeting of the volunteers for mass mobilization of general public to make September 23 as grand celebration in every nook and corner of Jammu region.
Youngest DDC Member, Pancheri-Moungri and volunteer of Team Jammu, Jasvir Singh also attended the meeting and expressed his views.
Zorawar Singh said that emotions of the residents of Jammu region are attached with the last ruler of the Dogra dynasty, who is respected across J&K for taking pro-people initiatives during his regime.
“First -time after 1947, residents of Jammu are feeling that those at the helm of the affairs have respected their sentiments and emotions,” he said and hastened to add that the successive democratically elected regime of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir overlooked peoples’ emotions just for petty political reasons.
Chairman of Team Jammu announced that September 23 this year would be celebrated in a big way to give befitting tributes to Maharaja Hari Singh who merged the erstwhile princely State of Jammu and Kashmir with the Indian Union on October 26, 1947, by signing the “Instrument of Accession”. He recalled that Team Jammu since its inception been celebrating September 23 through different means to remind people about the contributions of Maharaja Hari Singh.
Pertinent to mention that Team Jammu in 2016 had issued a calendar in which September 23 was declared as holiday. Further, said Zorawar Singh, it was the initiative of Team Jammu that members of all other communities be it traders, social organizations or student groups were involved to make this issue as a demand and mass movement of the entire Dogra community irrespective of caste, creed or colour.
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