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| Pandits clash with police during protest march over relief hike | | | 
JAMMU, Dec 26:
Demanding enhancement of the monthly cash relief, Kashmiri migrant relief holders today clashed with police during protest demonstration in front of Press Club here.
The irate migrant relief holders who are on dharna for last over 80 days demanding hike in their monthly relief in view of sky rocketing prices of essential commodities of life after reaching the Press Club tried to torch the effigies of Government and Apex Advisory Committee on migrants but the police foiled their bid which resulted into a clash between protesting migrants and men in khaki.
As a big pose of police was deployed in front of Press Club it did not allow the relief holders to torch the effigies and snatched them from their hands. The protesting relief holders continued shouting slogans against the Government and Apex Committee members.
Over 300 migrant relief holders held protest demonstration in support of their demand for enhancement of monthly relief for displaced Kashmiri Pandits.
Raising anti-Government slogans, earlier they held demonstrations at Relief Commissioner's Office and tried to take out a protest rally in the city and torch the effigies in front of Press Club. But the police foiled their bid.
"We are on strike for past several months in support of our demand for enhancement of monthly relief but Central Government has turned a blind eye with a proposal of enhancement of relief submitted to it by the State Government," Ramesh Kumar a relief holder told reporters here.
He said the Central Government should immediately approve the proposal of increase of relief from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000 per family failing which we will intensify the agitation and come to streets directly.
The protesting migrants also assailed the Apex Committee members and accusing them of surrender before the Government and playing with the interests of Kashmiri migrants. The Apex Committee does not represent the migrants and it has no mandate from the community said Ravinder Koul leader of the relief holders.
He said there is lot of resentment among the community for some anti migrants decisions taken y Apex Committee. The Apex Committee has no right to decide on return and rehabilitation of migrants as the situation was not conducive for the same, he added.
He said the Apex Committee members in their last meeting at Srinagar have reportedly okayed the return of migrants and assured all support to Government in this regard. Besides it ahs also supported the Government formula to allot the shops at Jagti and other camps in Jammu on self help basis.
He said there is a lot of resentment among the migrants against the Apex Committee members who are hoodwinking the community. ``We were kept under the impression that Apex members are fighting for the genuine demands of the community while in real sense they are hobnobbing with Government in making its so-called return formula a success''. |
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