 Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 7: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) today staged protest demonstration at Exhibition Ground today. The agitated protestors while accusing the BJP of placating the secessionist forces for saving its alliance with PDP, torched its effigy and raised anti-govt. slogans.
While addressing the media, Harsh Dev Singh expressed his anguish over the BJP's stoic silence in the wake of CM Mehbooba Mufti's visits to the families of the stone pelters killed in the police firing recently.
"While Mehbooba condoled the slain subversives and expressed her sympathies with family members, she assured them that the policeman who fired at the berserk mob causing injuries to the stone pelter would be brought to book. Subsequently, an FIR with charges u/s 307 RPC was registered against the constable who was placed under suspension by the State govt", dismayed Harsh said. He further added that the govt. had also ordered a magisterial inquiry against the killing of the stone pelter seeking its report within 20 days. Singh accused the BJP of bowing before the dictates of PDP which instead of taking punitive action against the anti- national elements preferred to take forward the suggestion made by its interlocutor to withdraw cases against 9700 stone pelters as amnesty in a bid to win hearts in the valley. He divulged that BJP had been hand in glove with its ally in doling out compensation and jobs to the stone pelters besides mulling obnoxious rehabilitation policy for the surrendered militants in the Kashmir valley. Saffron Party must clear its stand over Mehbooba's sympathies with the stone pelters, Harsh said.
Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion included Rajesh Padgotra, Gagan Partap Singh, Sham Gorkha, Parshotam Parihar, Khajoor Singh, K.K Sharma, Rajeshwar Singh Sambyal, Nirmal Kishore, Rashpaul Singh, Shankaar Singh Sanju, Mohinder Singh, Udhayveer Singh, Vishab Singh, Sansar Chand, Rakesh Verma, Joginder Singh, Shaitan Singh besides others. |
