 Early Times Report
Jammu, July 3: Intensifying its mass contact and educating public opinion programme, the AIIMS Coordination Committee leaders today held a largely attended meetings at Hari Market and Kanak Mandi areas of old city in which members briefly said the very credibility of BJP is at stake over AIIMS Issue as it has not acted as per expectations of people of Jammu.
Addressing the gathering of leading civil society members, traders and women activists, chairman of the
Coordination Committee-AIIMS and president of JKHCBA, Jammu, Abhinav Sharma, urged them to get ready for a mass movement across Jammu region in case the BJP, which on June 18 gave a written commitment that AIIMS will be established in Jammu region, failed to honour its commitment latest July 20.
"We are waiting for the D-day. We behaved in a most responsible manner after the BJP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh and his ministerial colleague Bali Bhagat gave us a written commitment that they will obtain positive orders on the issue on or before July 20, he said and added, "it is litmus test for the BJP, if it fails to deliver the promise by that day, it would lose all of its credibility."
BJP would become a story of the past if it failed to fulfill the solemn commitment, he underlined.
Explaining why Jammu region needed an AIIMS, Abhinav Sharma said that, unlike Kashmir, this region doesn't have a single modern and well-equipped medical institute and people have to go to such far off places as Delhi, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Mumbai and Bengaluru for medical treatment
Prominent and Members of CC-AIIMS who spoke on the occasion, included Retd Sessions Judge and president JPPF, Pavitar Singh, vice-president Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), Jammu, Deepak Aggarwal, President, Federation of Retailers Association, Yashpal Gupta, Jugal Mahajan, Vijay Gupta, president, Kanak Mandi Retailers Association, Labha Ram Gandhi, president West Pakistani Refugees, president Shri Amar Khastriya Rajput Sabha, Narayan Singh, Rajiv Dewan and Pawan Kumar. |
