DSSP demands separate Jammu State
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 7: Former Minister and Chairman of Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan Party, Choudhary Lal Singh was today placed under house arrest at his official residence in Gandhi Nagar.
A heavy posse of Police did not allow him to move out of his residence for attending a meeting of his supporters, which was organized for discussing the situation following abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of J&K State into two Union Territories.
In the prevailing situation, Lal Singh is the first leader from Jammu who has been put under house arrest.
According to a spokesperson of DSSP, the meeting of prominent citizens, social and political organizations of Jammu province , which could not be held at its actual venue because of confinement of Ch Lal Singh by the administration, was later convened at residence of the former minister.
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The meeting unanimous resolved appealing the Prime Minister and Home Minister to revisit the Reorganization Bill and make necessary amendment by declaring Jammu a separate State instead of attaching it with Kashmir under UT status.
While addressing the meeting, Ch Lal Singh said that Kashmiri rulers always exploited the country and played in the hands of the forces inimical to the peace of the nation, deserved to be pruned of their unbridled power. However, he added, the people of Jammu who are tested patriots and had been waiting for this golden moment for the last 70 years seeking separate State, should have been rewarded today by making Jammu a separate State.
” Dogra is a distinct race having its own physical structure, cultural ethos and a language and has no compatibility with Kashmiri in any respect and hence needs a separate entity,” he stressed adding that people of Jammu should not be treated at par with those of Kashmir and the present restrictions should be immediately lifted in Jammu province.
In the meeting, it was unanimously resolved that DSSP supports and stand by all the decisions of the Government of India, which are aimed to curb the political hegemony of Kashmir. “Even as we support all decisions taken for the protection of the legitimate rights of Jammu as well as Ladakh and to end the dominance of Kashmir over these regions once for all, the new arrangement under reorganization Bill, making Jammu & Kashmir a UT, has sent a shock wave all across Jammu province,” the participants said.
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