Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 16: Alleging increase in bias with each passing day against Jammu region during the present regime, the JKNPP Chairman and former Minister Harsh Dev Singh today vowed to take forward, with renewed zeal, the fight for Jammu to its logical conclusion.
“The youth of Jammu is prepared for a determined battle for justice and shall no longer accept the humiliation and discrimination doled out to them by their own mandated leaders in collusion with Kashmir centric forces,” said Harsh on the second day of 24×7 relay hunger strike launched by the Panthers Party near Maharaja Hari Singh statute against the neglect and deprivation of Jammu region by the BJP-PDP alliance.
The hunger strike on second day was joined by 21 NPP activists of district Udhampur who replaced the earlier party activists belonging to Reasi district.
Speaking on occasion, Harsh Dev Singh said that there was all-round dis-enchantment amongst the masses against the highly prejudicial approach of the present dispensation towards the Jammu region and its youth in particular. He said that the educated youth of the region were the major casualty of the present regime with their share in State services perpetually declining and having reached an all time low. “The recent reports regarding highly biased selections and advertisement notifications had brought to fore sensational revelations of unimaginable magnitude particularly with regard to appointments of SPOs, Teachers, Junior Assistants etc,” he rued.
Seeking a fair deal for the youth of Jammu Pradesh, Singh called upon various social and political organizations besides other NGOs to support the cause of Jammu being vehemently and vociferously agitated by the Panthers Party.
Balwant Singh Mankotia, State president, demanded high level judicial probe into the brutal lathi-charge on the NHM workers and called for regularization of all contractual employees working in various Government departments.
Yash Paul Kundal, State president Young Panthers, also spoke on the occasion.
Those who sit on hunger strike, included Shiv Dev Singh, Pawan Dev Singh, Sanjit Sharma, Ram Paul Ex-Sarpanch, Jagdev Singh, Kapoor Singh, Vishav Dev Singh, Uttam Kumar, Anoop Singh, Raj Kumar, Dhani Ram Attri, Sham Lal, Subash Singh, Resham Singh, Ravi Kumar Sharma, Kuldeep Kumar, Amar Nath Mehra, Ajay Singh, Amit Sharma, Arjun Singh, Prittam Singh, Shankar Singh, Vijay Kumar, Rajinder Bali, Sanjeet Singh and others.
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