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Jammu, Aug 12: In an expected backlash across the country on exodus of non-state subject labourers from Kashmir Valley, the Shiv Sena workers today held a demonstration in New Delhi, protesting against attacks in Jammu and Kashmir on people from outside the state.
The Shiv Sena leaders while holding a massive protest in New Delhi questioned the silence maintained by the state government and the central government on the threat to the labourers in Kashmir coming from various parts of the country. Reports reaching here quoted the Shiv Sena leaders as saying that people from Jammu and Kashmir coming for work in different parts of the country may too have to face the similar action.
They said that the central government and state government is allowing the separatists to have their own say on who should live in Jammu and Kashmir and who should not.
Meanwhile, it is learnt that the BJP leaders have planned to raise the issue in the Parliament during its monsoon session. The BJP leaders, particularly those from Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh have planned a major offensive of protest outside the parliament seeking a reply from the government on the issue.
Thousands of migrant labourers have fled Kashmir in the past three weeks after threats from militant groups. Around 25,000 of the migrants, who mostly take low paid construction and agricultural work, have left since two of them were accused of raping and killing a teenage girl last month.
That incident provoked militants to demand that all migrant workers leave the state. Although the Hizbul Mujahideen group has since retracted that threat, others have not.
There are thought to be around 200,000 migrant labourers working in Jammu and Kashmir. Some said they had faced growing hostility since the reported rape.
"There was a sudden change in the behaviour of local people after that incident," said Ram Saran, a mason from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, waiting for work at a labour market in Jammu. "They started hurling invectives and abuse at us wherever we went." "Many of us were not paid our wages," said Subash Jha, a plumber from Bihar. "Some of them even told us to get lost immediately."
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