EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 29:
Seeking immediate eviction of all illegal occupants of Estate Bungalows, the activists of NPP led by Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman-JKNPP & former Minister held a massive protest at Gandhi Nagar today. The protestors torched the effigy of BJP government and later held a huge demonstration alleging an unholy nexus between the unauthorized occupants and officers of the Estates Department. They raised slogans against the government as well as the Estates Department officers for conferring undue benefits upon BJP’s ex-MLAs, MLCs and even petty BJP workers.
Speaking on the occasion, Harsh Dev Singh said that as and when the issue of unauthorized occupation of government Bungalows by the blue eyed political leaders and workers was raised, the Estates Department issued notices to the said persons only to hoodwink the public and to silence the media highlighting such a grave irregularity.
He divulged that the Estates Department had issued five successive notices of eviction to the said occupants with the first such notice having been issued in December 2018. Displaying the copies of eviction notices served upon the unlawful occupants, Singh said that the first of such notices was issued on 21-02-2018 merely to fulfill a formality with none of the BJP leaders or workers having been actually asked to vacate the said premises.
Seeking personal indulgence of Lt. Governor and Chief Secretary, Harsh Dev sought a probe into the fishy affair involving the most scandalous conduct of illegal occupants in collusion with corrupt officers of Estates Department. Further calling for immediate recovery of penal rent from all such unauthorized holders of government property in terms of the announcement made by the government in December 2018 when the first eviction notice was served, he said that NPP had already announced to hold protests outside Vigilante Organizations for their criminal silence in acting against the shoddy doings of BJP leaders.
Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion included Rajesh Padgotra, Surinder Chouhan, Rakesh Gupta, Ravender Jamwal, Rajesh Gondhi, Rohit Sharma, Hakim Din besides others.
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