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Refugees pledge to support BJP 4/6/2014 11:15:05 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 6 : Refugees from West Pakistan took pledge to support and vote BJP in the forthcoming Lok Sabha election and defeat the Congress for its mis-deeds and policy of fooling the people. This pledge was taken in presence of BJP State President Jugal Kishore Sharma, who is also party candidate for Jammu-Poonch parliamentary constituency, when he reached at Swankha to meet and address a rally of refugee people. This rally was organized by a prominent West Pakistani Refugee leader Labha Ram Gandhi.Labha Ram Gandhi said that the Congress has repeatedly betrayed the refugees and is responsible for our plight. The Congress always mislead the refugees on false promises but it practical it did nothing for the grant of citizenship rights to the refugees from West Pakistan. He said this time we have to support and vote for BJP as its Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi as time and again assured that the problems of refugees will be settled on priority. Jugal Kishore Sharma said that the past governments of Congress, National Conference and PDP at the Centre as well as in the state have been treating the refugees as foreigners and have never treated them as human beings. They have been deprived of even all the basic rights enjoyed by other citizens living in other parts of the country. It is most unfortunate that their three generations have perished while agitating for grant of citizenship rights. The glaring example of discrimination with them is that Muslims from Tibet, who came here from foreign soil, have been well settled and promoted in the valley. The Congress has been succumbing to the desire of valley based ruling class and not ensuring the same treatment to the refugees from West Pakistan and PoJK, who have settled in the state as compared to those who settled in rest of the country. The refugee people, on this occasion, raised their hands and pledged in one voice to vote and support BJP. Chander Prakash Gnga, H S Pummi, Jaswant Singh, Dr. Kuldeep Raj, Darshan Lal, Surinder Kumar, Bahadur Lal, and Smt. Anu Sharma also addressed the rally.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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