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| YRS demands holiday on Maharaja Hari Singh’s birthday | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 10: Yuva Rajput Sabah continued their campaign for the demand of Holiday on Maharaja Hari Singh Ji birthday, today held a public meeting at Jhiri, Mishriwala. The meeting was chaired by Surinder Singh Gilli (President YRS).
During the meeting, Surinder Singh Gilli said that Jammu feels more isolated, marginalized and threatened by fundamentalist forces more than ever today. Sentiments of lakhs of people are still closely attached with Hari Singh's visionary social reforms, stand for justice and building of solid institutions. He said that YRS are simply asking for Jammu sentiments to be respected by declaring a state holiday. We do not want to be treated as second class citizens in our own state any more. Surinder Singh said that they welcomed the decision of scraping Article 370 and abrogation of Article 35 A. "We also welcome the decision of making Ladakh as UT, but downgrading of Jammu and Kashmir is not acceptable". He alleged that the Union Government has not taken into consideration the sentiments of Dogras and leaders of Jammu while preparing the architecture of Jammu & Kashmir. Gilli strongly demanded to govt. for immediately declare holiday on 23 September. |
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