Declare November 11 as holiday
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 24: Senior BJP leader and former vice chairman, Pahari Speaking Board, Kuldeep Raj Gupta today demanded releasing of postal stamp in honour of Rajouri martyrs.
Talking to reporters here along with BJP spokesperson, Balbir Ram Rattan and party media secretary, Dr. Pardeep Mahotra Kuldeep Raj Gupta batted for the release of postal stamp in honour of Rajouri martyrs. He said that while the whole nation was freed from the clutches of the British on August 15 in 1947, this area witnessed the dawn of independence only on April 13, 1948 when the Indian Army saved the people of Rajouri from the holocaust. But by that time nearly 15 thousand Pahari people had already lost their precious lives while about three thousand women committed mass suicides to save their honour and dignity from the predators, he added.
Gupta said that the Pahari people fought bravely with the locally made crude guns to save their motherland and the nation’s frontier with all their might and the nation is indebted to them for their heroic deed.
Releasing postal stamp in honour of the martyrs, the long pending and very genuine demand of the large population of Rajouri should be fulfilled, which would also be a tribute to the great patriots, he said.
Gupta also demanded that Jammu & Kashmir Government should declare November 11 as holiday, adding that it was the unfortunate day which witnessed killings of thousands of innocent people of Rajouri by the Kabailis backed by Pakistan Army.
He said that the Pahari community people have till now remained socially, economically and politically backward due to continued apathy of the previous Governments. He complimented the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi led Union Government for the grant of 4% reservation to STs and strongly supported the inclusion of Paharis in the ST category.
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