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| United front of nationalists forces taking shape | | | | JAMMU, FEB 25
United Front of Nationalist Forces, a brain child of Praja Parishad chief Chander Mohan Sharma, is gradually taking shape as the former BJP dissident has been able to secure support of Shiv Sena, Duggar Liberation Front, Duggar Desh Party and Refugee United Front to, as claimed, give voice to the people of the Jammu region in the state polity.
Sharma said here on Sunday, “We have decided to form a united front of pro-Jammu forces for fighting against continued discrimination with the region by the successive state governments.”
He said, “Our common minimum programme will be to force the government to ensure equitable distribution of funds for all the three regions and within sub regions to address the alienation among the masses living in remote areas.
He said that as per the population and the area in the Jammu region it deserved larger number of Assembly seats. Explaining it he said that the Kashmir valley with lesser population and area had 46 Assembly constituencies against 37 in the Jammu region.
Sharma stated that the Front would also agitat... | |
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| Ministers of stranded passengers on increase | | | | JAMMU, FEB 25
Despite the blasting job for the carving out a new patch of road near Panthal going on at a brisk pace, the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway is likely to remain closed for few more days. Hundreds of passengers are now crossing the Panthal area on foot to make it to Srinagar. The state government has also pressed services of transport vehciles to ferry stranded passengers. Meanwhile in Jammu the wait list of stranded passengers is increasing along with miseries of poor and needy passengers as majority of them are running short of money to sustain them.
On Sunday, a group of parents of missing persons who had gone to New Delhi to stage silent protests reached Jammu on wa... | |
| | | | Narasimha Rao defeated Fotedar-Arjun Singh duo | | Alexander reveals the hidden secret | | |
BL KAK
NEW DELHI, FEB 25
The untold story now told by PC Alexander, former Governor and Principal Secretary to Indira Gandhi, is worth reading for the principal characters divided in two groups, one led by the then Prime Minister, PV Narasimha Rao, and the other by Makhan Lal Fotedar-Arjun Singh duo. And if Fotedar, Kashmiri Pandit strategist, and Arjun Singh, crafty Thakur from Madhya Pradesh, made desperate attempts to clip Narasimha Rao's wings, the final victor was none other than Rao himself, who succesfully upset his rivials' apple-cart.
PC Alexander is widely known for his proximity to the Nehru-Gandhi family. No wonder, he made it a point to be on New Delhi on May 23, 199... | |
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