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| Mangat Ram is ‘Jai Chand’ of today: BJP | | ‘Legislators shared eye-t-eye gesture to indulge Mangat, Kahjuria’ | |
Jammu, May 15
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, twitched his eye. Transport Minister, Mohd Hakeem Yasin, got the hint. He twitched his eye to leader of the NC Legislature party, Abdul Rahim Rather. Rather too relied on the same gesture and exchanged a similar glance with Finance Minister Tariq Hamid Qarra. This went on from one legislator to another at a recent ‘All Party Meet’ held in Srinagar for clearing the decks for two political stalwarts from Jammu, Mangat Ram Sharma, Health Minister, and BJP President, Ashok Khajuria, to get engaged in a verbal duel.
This startling disclosure was made by Ashok Khajuria at a press conference in Jammu on Tuesday. Khajuria alleged that Azad and his valley centric supporters, in the meeting, knew that Mangat Ram had the traits of Jai Chand. They egged him to blunt the arguments of Khajuria who was pleading for grant of citizenship rights to refugees from West Pakistan settled in Jammu. He said like Jai Chand, Mangat Ram Sharma has been trying to sabotage the genuine demand of the Jammuites which amounted to his being a “traitor.”
He said that legislators belonging to the Jammu region, including Harsh Dev Singh, Jugal Kishore, Yashpal Bhagat and others “supported me and stood united but several others wo claim and often show off their Jammu centric credentials failed to rise above the level of party politics and once again played politics. ”He said, BJp is emotionally connected with the issue of citizenship but those belonging to the valley, especially Mohd.Hakim Yasin and M.Y.Tarigami, had launched a disinformation campaign.He said that these valley centric leaders, after having joined hands, had created an impression among the people in Kashmir that the opposition parties from Jammu were seeking citizenship rights for over 20 lakh refugees. Once, according to them, these rights were granted it would alter the demographic character of the Muslim majority state. Khajuria debunked this theory saying that a miniscule population of refugees from West Pakistan were seeking citizenship rights.
The BJP leader said since muslims constituted over 60 per cent state’s population grant of citizenship rights to west Pakistan refugees will not change the demographic character of the state.Addressing the press conference Khajuria also announced that in the coming days the state unit of the BJP would convene a meeting of representatives of various refugee groups to chalk out their next course of action claiming that continued silence over the issue wouldnot yield any fruitful results.Responding to another question Khajuria also assured members of the refugee community that he along with all other leaders of the state BJP unit would impress upon central BJP leadership to take up the issue of extending reservation to children of refugees settled in Jammu and Kashmir in all other states ruled by BJP.
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