Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 19: Expressing grief over the death of five members of a family, who were killed in cross border shelling in Poonch yesterday, various organisations and prominent individuals have grilled the Central; as well as the State Government for failure to tackle the situation.
Senior National Conference leader and MLA Kangan, Mian Altaf Ahmed, while expressing shock over the prevailing situation along Line of Control in J&K and the killing of five members of a family, alleged that the Government had done nothing for the affected border area people.
“Contrary to tall claims of the Centre as well as the State Government that necessary steps like construction of underground bunkers, shifting of affected people to safer places by providing them land, nothing has been done for the affected people in last three years,” he alleged and demanded immediate relief to the affected people.
He urged the Government to act immediately and move the border people to safer areas for preventing human loss.
A meeting of NCP was held under the chairmanship of NCP State president and former Minister Thakur Randhir Singh to strongly condemn the killing of five members of a family in border shelling.
While addressing the meet, Singh lamented that despite making tall promises the Centre and the PDP-BJP Coalition Government have not taken any initiative so far to provide permanent durable shelters to the dwellers of the shelling prone forward areas. He also sought formulation of a contingency plan to meet the challenges unfolded by border shelling besides keeping available mobile medical teams for timely assistance to the suffering people.
“People are getting killed but the Government is seen nowhere to take care of the sufferers. Such is the callousness of the authorities that the targeted people are not even being provided timely medical assistance,” Singh alleged and stressed that an effective strategy should be adopted and Army be given free hand to enter the occupied area to teach a lesson to the Pakistan Army. He also urged the Government to provide relief of Rs 20 lakh to each effected family and employment to one member of each family of the victims besides adequate relief to injured persons.
To lodge protest against no clear policy on J&K and worsening situation along the border, Sunil Dimple, president of Jammu West Assembly Movement, took out a mock funeral procession of the Central as well as the State Government and also staged a dharna on the main road to Janipur High Court road, here today.
The protesters raised slogans against Home Minister Raj Nath Singh, BJP-PDP Govt and Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti for the failure of Government to tackle the situation. Along with the Central and State Government, an effigy of Pakistan was also torched.
Addressing the protesters Sunil Dimple urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to start a decisive war and give Pakistan a befitting reply. He lamented that Jammu Kashmir State was on fire, innocent people and jawans were dyeing on the border while the PM was mum on the situation. He also demanded Rs 20 lakh ex-gratia relief to the families of deceased in border firing.
The workers of Dogra Front and Shiv Sena, under the leadership of president Ashok Gupta, took out a protest march in Jammu city against the Pakistani shelling in Mendhar area of Poonch, which claimed five innocent lives.
The protesting party workers raised anti- Pakistan slogans and also burnt the Pak flag expressing there anger.
Stating that the neighbouring country had crossed all limits and was indulging into repeated skirmishes on the border killing our soldiers and people, Ashok Gupta stressed that a full fledged war was the only way out to stop Pakistan from carrying such condemnable acts.
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