Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 7: Admonis-hing BJP led Government at the Centre for its alleged bias against Jammu region, Panthers Party activists, led by Harshdev Singh, Balwant Singh Mankotia and Yash Paul Kundal, staged a protest demonstration, here today against the wrongfully excluding ‘Dogri’ from the language panel of new currency notes.
Accusing the BJP for disparaging and ignoring Dogri vernacular and Jammu Pradesh during the printing of new currency notes, Harshdev Singh said that Rs 500/- and Rs 1000/- denominations of the currency notes were displayed in various recognized regional and national languages in the language panel of each currency note.
“Since Dogri language has been recognized and incorporated in the 8th schedule of the Constitution of India by virtue of 92nd Constitution Amendment Act, which automatically entitled it to be mentioned in the language panel of the new currency notes on the pattern of other regional languages,” he explained and added that the J&K High Court had already also passed an order last year in a Public Interest Litigation for due recognition to Dogri, making official announcements at Railway Stations and Airports etc in Dogri and inclusion of Dogri language in the language panel of the new currency notes.
Expressing indignation over the humiliation of Dogri language, Harshdev Singh dubbed it as a venomous doze of discrimination administered to Jammu region. “While the Kashmiri language discernibly appears on the language panel of the new currency notes, Dogri language has been wrongfully omitted and downplayed in consonance with the discriminatory policies of the Central and the State Governments,” he said and added that Dogri was blatantly ignored in the BJP Government which always pronounced itself as ‘messiah’ of the Dogras.
The JKNPP leader exhorted the Central Government and the Governor RBI to take serious cognizance of the issue and rectify the anomaly on the new currency notes failing which the Panthers Party would launch a campaign against the sacrilege of Dogri language.
Balwant Singh Mankotia and Yash Paul Kundal also addressed the gathering.
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