Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 26: National Secular Forum (NSF) has vowed to continue its fight against the discrimination being meted out to Jammuites at the hands of Kashmiri rulers and appealed youth to be ready for struggle to get separate Statehood for Jammu.
Addressing a press-conference here today, Dr Vikas Sharma flayed the PDP-BJP coalition Government for giving step-motherly treatment to the people of Jammu. He particularly took the BJP MLAs to task for maintaining stoic silence on the issue and reiterated demand for statehood to Jammu. He alleged that people of Jammu were facing worst kind of discrimination at the hands of Kashmiri rulers and asked them to get united to launch a comprehensible struggle to get rid of all the ills.
Dr Vikas Sharma alleged that blue eyed candidates were being recruited by the PSC at the instance of State Government thus causing resentment among the unemployed youth. He said that in the recent selection lists of Assistant Professors in different Subjects, much preference has been given to the candidates belonging to the Kashmir regions.
He urged the youth to stand up and ask for their right, which was being denied to them by the successive State Governments. “People voted BJP to power with a hope to get equal share in development but the situation turned more worst as BJP MLAs too are playing second fiddle to Kashmiri leadership and compromising with the interest of Jammu people,” he alleged and demanded rechristening of SKUAST-J as Jammu Agricultural University to restore pride of Dogras.
Among those who were present in the press-conference, included, Sukhdev Singh State working president, Papinder Singh, State vice-president, Rishikesh Rana, and Pardeep Sharma.
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